# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第八十四条 (Article 84) - 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: 第八十四条 (Article 84)（開示決定等の期限の特例） — address `art-84` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-84 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-84 - 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. --- ### 第八十四条（開示決定等の期限の特例） — (Exception to the Due Date for Decisions on Disclosure) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-84 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-84 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-84 **第一項** 開示請求に係る保有個人情報が著しく大量であるため、開示請求があった日から六十日以内にその全てについて開示決定等をすることにより事務の遂行に著しい支障が生ずるおそれがある場合には、前条の規定にかかわらず、行政機関の長等は、開示請求に係る保有個人情報のうちの相当の部分につき当該期間内に開示決定等をし、残りの保有個人情報については相当の期間内に開示決定等をすれば足りる。この場合において、行政機関の長等は、同条第一項に規定する期間内に、開示請求者に対し、次に掲げる事項を書面により通知しなければならない。 art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-84/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, if there is a considerably large amount of personal information an administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for disclosure, and there would be a risk that the performance of duties is considerably hindered if a decision on disclosure were made on all of those requests within sixty days from the date of a request for disclosure, it is sufficient for the administrative organ's head or administrative entity to make a decision on disclosure for a reasonable portion of the personal information the administrative entity holds for which disclosure has been requested within that period of time, and to make a decision on disclosure for the remaining personal information within a reasonable period of time. In this case, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must notify the person requesting disclosure of the following matters in writing within the period of time prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** この条の規定を適用する旨及びその理由 art-84/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-84/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-84/par-1/item-1 the application of this Article and the grounds for its application; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 残りの保有個人情報について開示決定等をする期限 art-84/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-84/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-84/par-1/item-2 due date for making a decision on disclosure for the remaining personal information the administrative entity holds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-84/par-1: 前条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十三条 (Article 83), art-83 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-83 - art-84/par-1: 同条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十三条第一項 (Article 83, paragraph (1)), art-83/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-83/par-1 - art-84/par-1/item-1: この条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十四条 (Article 84), art-84 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-84 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-84 ## 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 第八十四条第一項第一号（開示決定等の期限の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-84/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-84/par-1/item-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