# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百四十九条 (Article 149) - 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: 第百四十九条 (Article 149)（委員会の権限の行使の制限） — address `art-149` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-149 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-149 - 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. --- ### 第百四十九条（委員会の権限の行使の制限） — (Restriction on the Commission's Exercising the Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-149 **第一項** 委員会は、前三条の規定により個人情報取扱事業者等に対し報告若しくは資料の提出の要求、立入検査、指導、助言、勧告又は命令を行うに当たっては、表現の自由、学問の自由、信教の自由及び政治活動の自由を妨げてはならない。 art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-149/par-1 When requiring a business handling personal or other related information to submit a report or material, conducting its on-site inspection, or giving a guidance, advice, recommendation or order to it, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding three Articles, the Commission must not preclude the freedom of expression, freedom of academia, freedom of religion, and freedom of political activity. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When requiring a business handling personal or other related information to submit a report or material, conducting its on-site inspection, or giving a guidance, advice, recommendation or order to it, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, the Commission must not preclude the freedom of expression, freedom of academia, freedom of religion, and freedom of political activity." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4241/tb **第二項** 前項の規定の趣旨に照らし、委員会は、個人情報取扱事業者等が第五十七条第一項各号に掲げる者（それぞれ当該各号に定める目的で個人情報等を取り扱う場合に限る。）に対して個人情報等を提供する行為については、その権限を行使しないものとする。 art-149/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-149/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-149/par-2 In light of the purport of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Commission is not to exercise its authority when a business handling personal or other related information provides personal or other related information to a person set forth in one of the items of Article 57, paragraph (1) (limited to cases in which the person handles personal or other related information for the purpose prescribed in those items). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-149/par-1: 前三条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十六条 (Article 146), art-146 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-146 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-146 - art-149/par-1: 前三条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十七条 (Article 147), art-147 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-147 - art-149/par-1: 前三条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十八条 (Article 148), art-148 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-148 - art-149/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十九条第一項 (Article 149, paragraph (1)), art-149/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-149/par-1 - art-149/par-2: 第五十七条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十七条第一項 (Article 57, paragraph (1)), art-57/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-57/par-1 ## 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 第百四十九条第二項（委員会の権限の行使の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-149/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-149/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十条第一項（委員会の権限の行使の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-160/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-160/par-1 --- ## 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 149, paragraph (1) — 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