# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（主務大臣がした処分等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4271-65/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（主務大臣がした処分等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Dispositions Made by the Competent Minister caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4271-65/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-4 **第一項** 施行日前に第二条の規定による改正前の個人情報の保護に関する法律（以下「旧個人情報保護法」という。）又はこれに基づく命令の規定により旧個人情報保護法第三十六条又は第四十九条に規定する主務大臣（以下この条において単に「主務大臣」という。）がした勧告、命令その他の処分又は通知その他の行為は、施行日以後は、新個人情報保護法又はこれに基づく命令の相当規定に基づいて、個人情報保護委員会がした勧告、命令その他の処分又は通知その他の行為とみなす。 suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-1 Recommendations, orders or other dispositions, or notices or other acts, made before the Effective Date, pursuant to the provisions of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information prior to its amendment by Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act on the Protection of Personal Information") or of orders based on it, by the competent minister prescribed in Article 36 or Article 49 of the Former Act on the Protection of Personal Information (hereinafter simply referred to as the "competent minister" in this Article) are deemed, on or after the Effective Date, to be recommendations, orders or other dispositions, or notices or other acts, made by the Personal Information Protection Commission pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the New Act on the Protection of Personal Information or of orders based on it. machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行の際現に旧個人情報保護法又はこれに基づく命令の規定により主務大臣に対してされている申請、届出その他の行為は、施行日以後は、新個人情報保護法又はこれに基づく命令の相当規定に基づいて、個人情報保護委員会に対してされた申請、届出その他の行為とみなす。 suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-2 Applications, notifications, or other acts that have actually been made to the competent minister at the time this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of the Former Act on the Protection of Personal Information or of orders based on it are deemed, on or after the Effective Date, to be applications, notifications, or other acts made to the Personal Information Protection Commission pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the New Act on the Protection of Personal Information or of orders based on it. machine translation, not official **第三項** 施行日前に旧個人情報保護法又はこれに基づく命令の規定により主務大臣に対して届出その他の手続をしなければならない事項で、施行日前にその手続がされていないものについては、施行日以後は、これを、新個人情報保護法又はこれに基づく命令の相当規定により個人情報保護委員会に対してその手続をしなければならないとされた事項についてその手続がされていないものとみなして、当該相当規定を適用する。 suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-3 With regard to a matter for which a notification or other procedure must be carried out with the competent minister before the Effective Date pursuant to the provisions of the Former Act on the Protection of Personal Information or of orders based on it, and for which that procedure has not been carried out before the Effective Date, on or after the Effective Date, those corresponding provisions apply by deeming that matter to be a matter for which that procedure must be carried out with the Personal Information Protection Commission pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the New Act on the Protection of Personal Information or of orders based on it and for which that procedure has not been carried out. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-1: この条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-4271-65/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-4 ## 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 附則第四条第一項（主務大臣がした処分等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-4/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 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T184447-002, 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