# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（委員長又は委員の任命等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4271-65/art-7` - 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-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（委員長又は委員の任命等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Appointment of the Chairperson or Commissioners caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4271-65/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7 **第一項** 附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の際現に従前の特定個人情報保護委員会の委員長又は委員である者は、それぞれ第二号施行日に、第一条の規定による改正後の個人情報の保護に関する法律（以下この条において「第二号新個人情報保護法」という。）第五十四条第三項の規定により、個人情報保護委員会の委員長又は委員として任命されたものとみなす。この場合において、その任命されたものとみなされる者の任期は、第二号新個人情報保護法第五十五条第一項の規定にかかわらず、第二号施行日における従前の特定個人情報保護委員会の委員長又は委員としてのそれぞれの任期の残任期間と同一の期間とする。 suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1 A person who is serving as the chairperson or a commissioner of the former Specific Personal Information Protection Commission at the time the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect is deemed to have been appointed, on the item (ii) Effective Date, as the chairperson or a commissioner, respectively, of the Personal Information Protection Commission pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (3) of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information as amended by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "item (ii) New Personal Information Protection Act" in this Article). In this case, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 55, paragraph (1) of the item (ii) New Personal Information Protection Act, the term of office of the person deemed to have been so appointed is to be a period equal to the respective remaining term of office of that person as the chairperson or a commissioner of the former Specific Personal Information Protection Commission as of the item (ii) Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行に伴い新たに任命されることとなる個人情報保護委員会の委員については、第二号新個人情報保護法第五十四条第三項に規定する委員の任命のために必要な行為は、第二号施行日前においても行うことができる。 suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-2 With regard to the commissioners of the Personal Information Protection Commission who are to be newly appointed upon the enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions, acts necessary for the appointment of commissioners prescribed in Article 54, paragraph (3) of the item (ii) New Personal Information Protection Act may be carried out even before the item (ii) Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第三項** 附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の際現に従前の特定個人情報保護委員会の事務局の職員である者は、別に辞令を発せられない限り、第二号施行日に、同一の勤務条件をもって、個人情報保護委員会の事務局の相当の職員となるものとする。 suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-3 A person who is serving as a member of the secretarial staff of the former Specific Personal Information Protection Commission at the time the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect is to become a corresponding member of the secretarial staff of the Personal Information Protection Commission on the item (ii) Effective Date, under the same working conditions, unless otherwise notified by a letter of appointment. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1: この条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-4271-65/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7 - suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1: 第二号新個人情報保護法第五十五条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-56/par-1 - suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-2: 附則第一条第二号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-3: 附則第一条第二号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第七条第一項（委員長又は委員の任命等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/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-20261010T184447-002, 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