# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（第五十一条の規定の施行に伴う準備行為） — address `suppl-5031-37/art-8` - 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-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条（第五十一条の規定の施行に伴う準備行為） — Preparatory Acts Accompanying Enforcement of the Provisions of Article 51 caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-37/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-8 **第一項** 国は、第五十一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、次条及び附則第十条第一項において「第五十一条改正後個人情報保護法」という。）の規定による地方公共団体の機関及び地方独立行政法人の保有する個人情報の適正な取扱いを確保するため、地方公共団体に対して必要な資料の提出を求めることその他の方法により地方公共団体の機関及び地方独立行政法人における第五十一条改正後個人情報保護法の施行のために必要な準備行為の実施状況を把握した上で、必要があると認めるときは、当該準備行為について技術的な助言又は勧告をするものとする。 suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-1 The national government, in order to ensure the proper handling, under the provisions of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information as Amended by Article 51 (hereinafter referred to as the "Act on the Protection of Personal Information as Amended by Article 51" in this Article, the following Article and Article 10, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions), of personal information that local government organs and local incorporated administrative agencies hold, is to, after ascertaining the state of implementation of the preparatory acts necessary for the enforcement of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information as Amended by Article 51 in local government organs and local incorporated administrative agencies by requesting local governments to submit necessary materials or by other means, give technical advice or recommendations on those preparatory acts if it finds it necessary. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第五十一条改正後個人情報保護法第百六十七条第一項の規定による届出は、第五十一条の規定の施行の日（次条において「第五十一条施行日」という。）前においても行うことができる。 suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-2 Notification under the provisions of Article 167, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information as Amended by Article 51 may also be made before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 51 (referred to as the "Article 51 Effective Date" in the following Article). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-1: この条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-5031-37/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-8 - suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-1: 次条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9), suppl-5031-37/art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-9 - suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-1: 附則第十条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第十条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10, paragraph (1)), suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-1 - suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-2: 第五十一条改正後個人情報保護法第百六十七条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十七条第一項 (Article 167, paragraph (1)), art-167/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-167/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-167/par-1 - suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-2: 次条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9), suppl-5031-37/art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-9 ## 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-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/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六号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-6 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第八条第一項（第五十一条の規定の施行に伴う準備行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-8/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-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T182616-005, 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