# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第二十五条 (Article 25) - 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: 第二十五条 (Article 25)（委託先の監督） — address `art-25` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条（委託先の監督） — (Supervision of an Entrusted Person) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-25 **第一項** 個人情報取扱事業者は、個人データの取扱いの全部又は一部を委託する場合は、その取扱いを委託された個人データの安全管理が図られるよう、委託を受けた者に対する必要かつ適切な監督を行わなければならない。 art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-25/par-1 If a business handling personal information entrusts another person with all or part of the handling of personal data, it must exercise the necessary and adequate supervision over the person it entrusts, so as to ensure the secure management of the personal data with whose handling it entrusts that person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第四十二条第三項（仮名加工情報の第三者提供の制限等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-42/par-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十八条第一項（勧告及び命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-148/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十八条第三項（勧告及び命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-148/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-148/par-3 --- ## 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