# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百三十九条 (Article 139) - 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: 第百三十九条 (Article 139)（会議） — address `art-139` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139 - 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. --- ### 第百三十九条（会議） — (Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-139 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139 **第一項** 委員会の会議は、委員長が招集する。 art-139/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139/par-1 A meeting of the Commission is to be called by a chairperson. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 委員会は、委員長及び四人以上の委員の出席がなければ、会議を開き、議決をすることができない。 art-139/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139/par-2 The Commission may neither hold a meeting nor make a decision, unless a chairperson and four or more commissioners are present. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 委員会の議事は、出席者の過半数でこれを決し、可否同数のときは、委員長の決するところによる。 art-139/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139/par-3 A decision of the Commission is to be adopted by a majority of attendees, and when in a tie, a chairperson is to make a decision. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第百三十六条第四号の規定による認定をするには、前項の規定にかかわらず、本人を除く全員の一致がなければならない。 art-139/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139/par-4 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, there must be an unanimous concurrence of all commissioners on the recognition under Article 136, item (iv), except for the commissioner concerned. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, there must be an unanimous concurrence of all commissioners on the recognition under Article 136, paragraph (4), except for the commissioner concerned." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4241/tb **第五項** 委員長に事故がある場合の第二項の規定の適用については、前条第二項に規定する委員長を代理する者は、委員長とみなす。 art-139/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139/par-5 In applying the provisions of paragraph (2) in cases in which a chairperson is unavailable, an acting chairperson as prescribed in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article is deemed as a chairperson. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-139/par-4: 第百三十六条第四号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百三十六条第一項第四号 (Article 136, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-136/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-136/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-136/par-1/item-4 - art-139/par-4: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百三十九条第三項 (Article 139, paragraph (3)), art-139/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139/par-3 - art-139/par-5: 第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百三十九条第二項 (Article 139, paragraph (2)), art-139/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139/par-2 - art-139/par-5: 前条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百三十八条第二項 (Article 138, paragraph (2)), art-138/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-138/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-138/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百三十九条第四項（会議） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139/par-4 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百三十九条第五項（会議） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-139/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139/par-5 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Protection of Personal Information (個人情報の保護に関する法律), Article 139, paragraph (4) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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