# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百三条 (Article 103) - 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: 第百三条 (Article 103)（利用停止決定等の期限の特例） — address `art-103` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-103 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-103 - 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. --- ### 第百三条（利用停止決定等の期限の特例） — (Exception to the Due Date for Decisions on Ceasing to Use Personal Information) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-103 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、利用停止決定等に特に長期間を要すると認めるときは、前条の規定にかかわらず、相当の期間内に利用停止決定等をすれば足りる。この場合において、行政機関の長等は、同条第一項に規定する期間内に、利用停止請求者に対し、次に掲げる事項を書面により通知しなければならない。 art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-103/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, if an administrative organ's head or administrative entity finds that making a decision on ceasing to use personal information would require a particularly long period of time, it is sufficient for them to make a decision on ceasing to use the personal information within a reasonable period of time. In this case, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must notify the person making a request for ceasing to use the personal information in writing of the following matters within the period of time prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** この条の規定を適用する旨及びその理由 art-103/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-103/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-103/par-1/item-1 the application of this Article and the grounds for its application; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 利用停止決定等をする期限 art-103/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-103/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-103/par-1/item-2 the due date for making a decision on ceasing to use the personal information. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-103/par-1: 前条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二条 (Article 102), art-102 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-102 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-102 - art-103/par-1: 同条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二条第一項 (Article 102, paragraph (1)), art-102/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-102/par-1 - art-103/par-1/item-1: この条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百三条 (Article 103), art-103 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-103 ## 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 第百三条第一項第一号（利用停止決定等の期限の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-103/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-103/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 - 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