# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第七十条 (Article 70) - 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: 第七十条 (Article 70)（保有個人情報の提供を受ける者に対する措置要求） — address `art-70` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-70 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-70 - 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. --- ### 第七十条（保有個人情報の提供を受ける者に対する措置要求） — (Making Requests of Persons that Receive Personal Information an Administrative Entity Holds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-70 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、利用目的のために又は前条第二項第三号若しくは第四号の規定に基づき、保有個人情報を提供する場合において、必要があると認めるときは、保有個人情報の提供を受ける者に対し、提供に係る個人情報について、その利用の目的若しくは方法の制限その他必要な制限を付し、又はその漏えいの防止その他の個人情報の適切な管理のために必要な措置を講ずることを求めるものとする。 art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-70/par-1 When an administrative organ's head or administrative entity finds it necessary in providing personal information the administrative entity holds for the purpose of use or pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), item (iii) or (iv) of the preceding Article, they are to impose restrictions on the purpose or method of use of the personal information they provide or any other restrictions considered necessary on a person that receives that personal information, or request the person take necessary measures to prevent the leaking of and for the proper management of that personal information. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-70/par-1: 前条第二項第三号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第六十九条第二項第三号 (Article 69, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-69/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-69/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-69/par-2/item-3 - art-70/par-1: 第四号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第六十九条第二項第四号 (Article 69, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-69/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-69/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-69/par-2/item-4 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第三十一条第一項（情報提供等の記録についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/my-number-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-31/par-1 - 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第三十一条第二項（情報提供等の記録についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/my-number-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-31/par-2 --- ## 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