# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - Law: 個人情報の保護に関する法律 (Act on the Protection of Personal Information), 平成十五年法律第五十七号 - English title "Act on the Protection of Personal Information": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（命令の効力に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4211-49/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4211-49/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4211-49/art-5 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五条（命令の効力に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Effect of Orders caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4211-49/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4211-49/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4211-49/art-5 **第一項** 旧法令の規定により発せられた内閣府設置法第七条第三項の内閣府令又は国家行政組織法第十二条第一項の省令は、法令に別段の定めがあるもののほか、この法律の施行後は、新法令の相当規定に基づいて発せられた相当の内閣府設置法第七条第三項の内閣府令又は国家行政組織法第十二条第一項の省令としての効力を有するものとする。 suppl-4211-49/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4211-49/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4211-49/art-5/par-1 A Cabinet Office Order set forth in Article 7, paragraph (3) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office or a Ministerial Order set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1) of the National Government Organization Act issued pursuant to the provisions of the Former Laws and Regulations is to remain in force as the corresponding Cabinet Office Order set forth in Article 7, paragraph (3) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office or the corresponding Ministerial Order set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1) of the National Government Organization Act issued pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the New Laws and Regulations, except as otherwise specified in laws and orders. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4211-49/art-5/par-1: 内閣府設置法第七条第三項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000089, 第七条第三項 (Article 7, paragraph (3)), art-7/par-3 — not held in this collection - suppl-4211-49/art-5/par-1: 国家行政組織法第十二条第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000120, 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第九条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4211-49/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4211-49/art-9/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 個人情報の保護に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000057/20261001_507AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Protection of Personal Information — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4241/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T184447-001, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 個人情報の保護に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10