# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百七十二条 (Article 172) - 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: 第百七十二条 (Article 172)（外国執行当局への情報提供） — address `art-172` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172 - 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. --- ### 第百七十二条（外国執行当局への情報提供） — (Information Provision to the Foreign Enforcement Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-172 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172 **第一項** 委員会は、この法律に相当する外国の法令を執行する外国の当局（以下この条において「外国執行当局」という。）に対し、その職務（この法律に規定する委員会の職務に相当するものに限る。次項において同じ。）の遂行に資すると認める情報の提供を行うことができる。 art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-1 The Commission may provide the foreign authority enforcing foreign laws and regulations equivalent to this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "foreign enforcement authority" in this Article) with information that the Commission finds as contributing to their fulfilling the duties (limited to those equivalent to the Commission's duties prescribed in this Act; the same applies in the following paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による情報の提供については、当該情報が当該外国執行当局の職務の遂行以外に使用されず、かつ、次項の規定による同意がなければ外国の刑事事件の捜査（その対象たる犯罪事実が特定された後のものに限る。）又は審判（同項において「捜査等」という。）に使用されないよう適切な措置がとられなければならない。 art-172/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-2 Concerning the information provision under the preceding paragraph, appropriate measures must be taken so that the information is neither used for any purpose other than for the foreign enforcement authority's fulfilling their duties nor used for a foreign criminal case investigation (limited to the one conducted after the criminal facts subject to the investigation have been specified) or adjudication (hereinafter referred to as an "investigation or adjudication") without consent under the following paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 委員会は、外国執行当局からの要請があったときは、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合を除き、第一項の規定により提供した情報を当該要請に係る外国の刑事事件の捜査等に使用することについて同意をすることができる。 art-172/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-3 When having received a request from the foreign enforcement authority, the Commission may consent that the information it provided pursuant to paragraph (1) be used for a foreign criminal case investigation or adjudication in connection with the request except cases falling under one of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該要請に係る刑事事件の捜査等の対象とされている犯罪が政治犯罪であるとき、又は当該要請が政治犯罪について捜査等を行う目的で行われたものと認められるとき。 art-172/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-3/item-1 a crime subject to the criminal case investigation or adjudication in connection with the request is a political crime, or the request is found to have been made for the purpose of conducting the investigation or adjudication into a political crime; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 当該要請に係る刑事事件の捜査等の対象とされている犯罪に係る行為が日本国内において行われたとした場合において、その行為が日本国の法令によれば罪に当たるものでないとき。 art-172/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-3/item-2 an act relating to the crime that is subject to a criminal case investigation or adjudication connected with the request, if it were committed in Japan, is not to constitute a criminal offense according to the laws and regulations in Japan; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 日本国が行う同種の要請に応ずる旨の要請国の保証がないとき。 art-172/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-3/item-3 there is no assurance that the requesting country will accept the same kind of request from Japan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 委員会は、前項の同意をする場合においては、あらかじめ、同項第一号及び第二号に該当しないことについて法務大臣の確認を、同項第三号に該当しないことについて外務大臣の確認を、それぞれ受けなければならない。 art-172/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-4 If the Commission gives the consent referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Commission must acquire the Minister of Justice's confirmation that the relevant case does not fall under item (i) and item (ii) of that paragraph, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs' confirmation that the relevant case does not fall under item (iii) of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-172/par-1: この条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条 (Article 172), art-172 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172 - art-172/par-1: 次項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第二項 (Article 172, paragraph (2)), art-172/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-2 - art-172/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第一項 (Article 172, paragraph (1)), art-172/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-1 - art-172/par-2: 次項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第三項 (Article 172, paragraph (3)), art-172/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-3 - art-172/par-3: 第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第一項 (Article 172, paragraph (1)), art-172/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-1 - art-172/par-4: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第三項 (Article 172, paragraph (3)), art-172/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-3 - art-172/par-4: 同項第一号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第三項第一号 (Article 172, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-172/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-3/item-1 - art-172/par-4: 第二号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第三項第二号 (Article 172, paragraph (3), item (ii)), art-172/par-3/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-3/item-2 - art-172/par-4: 同項第三号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第三項第三号 (Article 172, paragraph (3), item (iii)), art-172/par-3/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-3/item-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第一項（外国執行当局への情報提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第二項（外国執行当局への情報提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第三項（外国執行当局への情報提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十二条第四項（外国執行当局への情報提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-172/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-172/par-4 --- ## 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