# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第八十一条 (Article 81) - 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: 第八十一条 (Article 81)（保有個人情報の存否に関する情報） — address `art-81` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-81 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-81 - 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. --- ### 第八十一条（保有個人情報の存否に関する情報） — (Information on the Existence of Personal Information an Administrative Entity Holds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-81 **第一項** 開示請求に対し、当該開示請求に係る保有個人情報が存在しているか否かを答えるだけで、不開示情報を開示することとなるときは、行政機関の長等は、当該保有個人情報の存否を明らかにしないで、当該開示請求を拒否することができる。 art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-81/par-1 If non-disclosure information is supposed to be disclosed by merely answering whether or not personal information an administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for disclosure exists, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity may refuse the request for disclosure, without making the existence or non-existence of that personal information clear. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十二条第二項（開示請求に対する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-82/par-2 - 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 第三十一条第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-31/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