# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第五十四条 (Article 54) - 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: 第五十四条 (Article 54)（個人情報保護指針） — address `art-54` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54 - 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. --- ### 第五十四条（個人情報保護指針） — (Personal Information Protection Guidelines) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54 **第一項** 認定個人情報保護団体は、対象事業者の個人情報等の適正な取扱いの確保のために、個人情報に係る利用目的の特定、安全管理のための措置、開示等の請求等に応じる手続その他の事項又は仮名加工情報若しくは匿名加工情報に係る作成の方法、その情報の安全管理のための措置その他の事項に関し、消費者の意見を代表する者その他の関係者の意見を聴いて、この法律の規定の趣旨に沿った指針（以下この節及び第六章において「個人情報保護指針」という。）を作成するよう努めなければならない。 art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-1 In order to ensure the proper handling of personal or other related information by its covered businesses, a certified personal information protection organization must endeavor to create guidelines which follow the spirit of this Act (hereinafter referred to as "personal information protection guidelines" in this Section and Chapter VI), for how to specify the purpose of use of personal information, for measures to ensure its secure management, for procedures to deal with requests for disclosure or other handling, for other such matters, as well as how to produce pseudonymized processed information or anonymized personal information, and its security measures and other such matters, by listening to the opinions of representatives of customers or other relevant persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 認定個人情報保護団体は、前項の規定により個人情報保護指針を作成したときは、個人情報保護委員会規則で定めるところにより、遅滞なく、当該個人情報保護指針を個人情報保護委員会に届け出なければならない。これを変更したときも、同様とする。 art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-2 When having developed personal information protection guidelines pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, certified personal information protection organizations must notify the Personal Information Protection Commission of the personal information protection guidelines without delay pursuant to Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission. The same applies if the guidelines are modified. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When having developed personal information protection guidelines pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, certified personal information protection organizations must notify the Personal information Protection Commission of the personal information protection guidelines without delay pursuant to Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission. The same applies if the guidelines are modified." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4241/tb **第三項** 個人情報保護委員会は、前項の規定による個人情報保護指針の届出があったときは、個人情報保護委員会規則で定めるところにより、当該個人情報保護指針を公表しなければならない。 art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-3 When having been notified of personal information protection guidelines under the preceding paragraph, the Personal Information Protection Commission must disclose the personal information protection guidelines pursuant to Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 認定個人情報保護団体は、前項の規定により個人情報保護指針が公表されたときは、対象事業者に対し、当該個人情報保護指針を遵守させるため必要な指導、勧告その他の措置をとらなければならない。 art-54/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-4 When personal information protection guidelines have been disclosed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, certified personal information protection organizations must take measures against a covered business such as providing guidance or recommendations necessary to make the covered business comply with the personal information protection guidelines. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-54/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-1 - art-54/par-3: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十四条第二項 (Article 54, paragraph (2)), art-54/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-2 - art-54/par-4: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十四条第三項 (Article 54, paragraph (3)), art-54/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-3 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第三十七条第一項（開示等の請求等に応じる手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-37/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十二条第一項（対象事業者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-52/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十四条第二項（個人情報保護指針） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十四条第三項（個人情報保護指針） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十四条第四項（個人情報保護指針） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-4 --- ## 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 54, paragraph (2) — 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