# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百三十三条 (Article 133)

- 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: 第百三十三条 (Article 133)（職権行使の独立性） — address `art-133`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-133
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-133
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### 第百三十三条（職権行使の独立性） — (Independence on Exercising Authority)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-133 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-133 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-133</sup>

  **第一項**  委員会の委員長及び委員は、独立してその職権を行う。
  <sup>art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-133/par-1</sup>
  A chairperson and commissioners of the Commission exercise their official authority independently.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## 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