# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（通知等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5021-44/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5021-44/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5021-44/art-2
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### 第二条（通知等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Notification, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5021-44/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5021-44/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5021-44/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  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「新個人情報保護法」という。）第二十三条第二項の規定により個人データを第三者に提供しようとする者は、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）前においても、個人情報保護委員会規則で定めるところにより、同項第一号、第四号及び第八号に掲げる事項に相当する事項について、本人に通知するとともに、個人情報保護委員会に届け出ることができる。この場合において、当該通知及び届出は、施行日以後は、同項の規定による通知及び届出とみなす。
<sup>suppl-5021-44/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5021-44/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5021-44/art-2/par-1</sup>
A person that intends to provide personal data to a third party pursuant to the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (2) of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information as amended by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act on the Protection of Personal Information") may, even before the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as "the Effective Date"), as provided by Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission, notify the identifiable person of matters equivalent to those set forth in items (i), (iv), and (viii) of that paragraph and file a notification of those matters with the Personal Information Protection Commission. In this case, that notice and notification are deemed, on or after the Effective Date, to be the notice and notification under the provisions of that paragraph.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5021-44/art-2/par-1: 第二十三条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二十七条第二項 (Article 27, paragraph (2)), art-27/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-27/par-2
- suppl-5021-44/art-2/par-1: 同項第一号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二十七条第二項第一号 (Article 27, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-27/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-27/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-27/par-2/item-1
- suppl-5021-44/art-2/par-1: 第四号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二十七条第二項第四号 (Article 27, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-27/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-27/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-27/par-2/item-4
- suppl-5021-44/art-2/par-1: 第八号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二十七条第二項第八号 (Article 27, paragraph (2), item (viii)), art-27/par-2/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-27/par-2/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-27/par-2/item-8

## 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 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5021-44/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5021-44/art-1/par-1/item-3

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## 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-20261010T184447-003, 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
