# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第五十条 (Article 50) - 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: 第五十条 (Article 50)（変更の認定等） — address `art-50` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-50 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十条（変更の認定等） — (Certification of Alterations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-50 **第一項** 第四十七条第一項の認定（同条第二項の規定により業務の範囲を限定する認定を含む。次条第一項及び第百五十五条第一項第五号において同じ。）を受けた者は、その認定に係る業務の範囲を変更しようとするときは、個人情報保護委員会の認定を受けなければならない。ただし、個人情報保護委員会規則で定める軽微な変更については、この限りでない。 art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-50/par-1 If a person that has received certification under Article 47, paragraph (1) (including that limiting the scope of services pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article and Article 155, paragraph (1), item (v)) seeks to alter the scope of services concerning the certification, the person must receive certification from the Personal Information Protection Commission; provided, however, that this does not apply to a minor alteration as prescribed by Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第四十七条第三項及び第四項並びに前条の規定は、前項の変更の認定について準用する。 art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-50/par-2 The provisions of Article 47, paragraphs (3) and (4) and the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the certification of alteration referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-50/par-1: 第四十七条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-47/par-1 - art-50/par-1: 同条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第四十七条第二項 (Article 47, paragraph (2)), art-47/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-47/par-2 - art-50/par-1: 次条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-51/par-1 - art-50/par-1: 第百五十五条第一項第五号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十五条第一項第五号 (Article 155, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-155/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-155/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-155/par-1/item-5 - art-50/par-2: 第四十七条第三項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第四十七条第三項 (Article 47, paragraph (3)), art-47/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-47/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-47/par-3 - art-50/par-2: 第四項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第四十七条第四項 (Article 47, paragraph (4)), art-47/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-47/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-47/par-4 - art-50/par-2: 前条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第四十九条 (Article 49), art-49 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-49 - art-50/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十条第一項 (Article 50, paragraph (1)), art-50/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-50/par-1 ## 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 第五十条第二項（変更の認定等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-50/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十一条第一項（廃止の届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-51/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十五条第一項第五号（認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-155/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-155/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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