# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百四条 (Article 104) - 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: 第百四条 (Article 104)（審理員による審理手続に関する規定の適用除外等） — address `art-104` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-104 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-104 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百四条（審理員による審理手続に関する規定の適用除外等） — (Exclusion from Application of Provisions Concerning Review Proceedings by Review Officers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-104 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-104 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-104 **第一項** 行政機関の長等（地方公共団体の機関又は地方独立行政法人を除く。次項及び次条において同じ。）に対する開示決定等、訂正決定等、利用停止決定等又は開示請求、訂正請求若しくは利用停止請求に係る不作為に係る審査請求については、行政不服審査法（平成二十六年法律第六十八号）第九条、第十七条、第二十四条、第二章第三節及び第四節並びに第五十条第二項の規定は、適用しない。 art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-104/par-1 The provisions of Article 9, Article 17, Article 24, Chapter II, Sections 3 and 4, and Article 50, paragraph (2) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014) do not apply to an appeal for review to any inaction of an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (excluding a local government organ or a local incorporated administrative agency; the same applies in the following paragraph and the following Article) in relation to a decision on disclosure, a decision on correction, a decision on ceasing to use personal information, or in relation to a request for disclosure, a request for correction, or a request for ceasing to use personal information. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 行政機関の長等に対する開示決定等、訂正決定等、利用停止決定等又は開示請求、訂正請求若しくは利用停止請求に係る不作為に係る審査請求についての行政不服審査法第二章の規定の適用については、同法第十一条第二項中「第九条第一項の規定により指名された者（以下「審理員」という。）」とあるのは「第四条（個人情報の保護に関する法律（平成十五年法律第五十七号）第百七条第二項の規定に基づく政令を含む。）の規定により審査請求がされた行政庁（第十四条の規定により引継ぎを受けた行政庁を含む。以下「審査庁」という。）」と、同法第十三条第一項及び第二項中「審理員」とあるのは「審査庁」と、同法第二十五条第七項中「あったとき、又は審理員から第四十条に規定する執行停止をすべき旨の意見書が提出されたとき」とあるのは「あったとき」と、同法第四十四条中「行政不服審査会等」とあるのは「情報公開・個人情報保護審査会（審査庁が会計検査院長である場合にあっては、別に法律で定める審査会。第五十条第一項第四号において同じ。）」と、「受けたとき（前条第一項の規定による諮問を要しない場合（同項第二号又は第三号に該当する場合を除く。）にあっては審理員意見書が提出されたとき、同項第二号又は第三号に該当する場合にあっては同項第二号又は第三号に規定する議を経たとき）」とあるのは「受けたとき」と、同法第五十条第一項第四号中「審理員意見書又は行政不服審査会等若しくは審議会等」とあるのは「情報公開・個人情報保護審査会」とする。 art-104/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-104/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-104/par-2 When applying the provisions in Chapter II of the Administrative Complaint Review Act to an appeal for review to any inaction of an administrative organ's head or administrative entity in relation to a decision on disclosure, a decisions on correction, a decision ceasing to use personal information, or in relation to a request for disclosure, a request for correction, or a request for ceasing to use personal information, the term "a person who has been designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as a "review officer)" in Article 11, paragraph (2) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "an administrative agency (including an administrative agency that takes over the appeal for review pursuant to the provisions in Article 14; hereinafter referred to as a "reviewing agency") to which an appeal for review has been filed pursuant to the provisions in Article 4 (including a Cabinet Order issued pursuant to Article 107, paragraph (2) of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Act No. 57 of 2003)"); the term "review officer" in Article 13, paragraphs (1) and (2) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with the term "reviewing agency"; the phrase "has been filed or a written opinion to suggest the necessity to order a stay of execution as prescribed in Article 40 has been submitted by a review officer" in Article 25, paragraph (7) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "has been filed"; the term "Administrative Complaint Review Board, etc." in Article 44 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board (or a review board specified by another law if the President of the Board of Audit is the reviewing agency, the same applies in Article 50, paragraph (1), item (iv))"; in that Article, the phrase "has received a report to its consultation from the Administrative Complaint Review Board, etc. (or when a review officer's written opinion has been submitted in cases in which the consultation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is not necessary (excluding the cases falling under item (ii) or (iii) of that paragraph), or when deliberations prescribed in item (ii) or (iii) of that paragraph have been held in the cases falling under item (ii) or (iii) of that paragraph)" is deemed to be replaced with "has received a report to its consultation from the Administrative Complaint Review Board, etc."; and the term "the review officer's written opinion or the written report from the Administrative Complaint Review Board, etc. or the Council, etc." in Article 50, paragraph (1), item (iv) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-104/par-1: 次項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四条第二項 (Article 104, paragraph (2)), art-104/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-104/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-104/par-2 - art-104/par-1: 次条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五条 (Article 105), art-105 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-105 - art-104/par-1: 行政不服審査法（平成二十六年法律第六十八号）第九条 → e-Gov law 426AC0000000068, 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — not held in this collection - art-104/par-1: 第十七条 → e-Gov law 426AC0000000068, 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — not held in this collection - art-104/par-1: 第二十四条 → e-Gov law 426AC0000000068, 第二十四条 (Article 24), art-24 — not held in this collection - art-104/par-1: 第五十条第二項 → e-Gov law 426AC0000000068, 第五十条第二項 (Article 50, paragraph (2)), art-50/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-104/par-2: 個人情報の保護に関する法律（平成十五年法律第五十七号）第百七条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七条第二項 (Article 107, paragraph (2)), art-107/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-107/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-107/par-2 ## 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 第百四条第一項（審理員による審理手続に関する規定の適用除外等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-104/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 - 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