# 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)（外国にある第三者への提供に係る情報提供等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5021-44/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-5021-44/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5021-44/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（外国にある第三者への提供に係る情報提供等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Provision of Information, etc. in Connection with Provision to a Third Party in a Foreign Country caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5021-44/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5021-44/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5021-44/art-4 **第一項** 新個人情報保護法第二十四条第二項の規定は、個人情報取扱事業者が施行日以後に同条第一項の規定により本人の同意を得る場合について適用する。 suppl-5021-44/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5021-44/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5021-44/art-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (2) of the New Act on the Protection of Personal Information apply to cases in which a business handling personal information obtains the consent of the identifiable person pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article on or after the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新個人情報保護法第二十四条第三項の規定は、個人情報取扱事業者が施行日以後に個人データを同項に規定する外国にある第三者に提供した場合について適用する。 suppl-5021-44/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5021-44/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5021-44/art-4/par-2 The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (3) of the New Act on the Protection of Personal Information apply to cases in which a business handling personal information provides personal data, on or after the Effective Date, to a third party in a foreign country prescribed in that paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5021-44/art-4/par-1: 新個人情報保護法第二十四条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二十八条第二項 (Article 28, paragraph (2)), art-28/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-28/par-2 - suppl-5021-44/art-4/par-1: 同条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-28/par-1 - suppl-5021-44/art-4/par-2: 新個人情報保護法第二十四条第三項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二十八条第三項 (Article 28, paragraph (3)), art-28/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-28/par-3 --- ## 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