# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第七十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 72) - 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: 第七十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 72)（政令への委任） — address `suppl-5031-37/art-72` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-72 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-72 - 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. --- ### 第七十二条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-37/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-72 **第一項** この附則に定めるもののほか、この法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置（罰則に関する経過措置を含む。）は、政令で定める。 suppl-5031-37/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-72/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official ## 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一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261010T184447-004, 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