# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百四十七条 (Article 147) - 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: 第百四十七条 (Article 147)（指導及び助言） — address `art-147` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-147 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-147 - 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. --- ### 第百四十七条（指導及び助言） — (Guidance and Advice) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-147 **第一項** 委員会は、第四章の規定の施行に必要な限度において、個人情報取扱事業者等に対し、個人情報等の取扱いに関し必要な指導及び助言をすることができる。 art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-147/par-1 The Commission may provide a business handling personal or other related information with necessary guidance and advice on the handling of personal or other related information, to the extent necessary to implement the provisions of Chapter IV. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第百四十六条第一項（報告及び立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-146/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-146/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十九条第一項（委員会の権限の行使の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-149/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