# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第八十五条 (Article 85) - 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: 第八十五条 (Article 85)（事案の移送） — address `art-85` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-85 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-85 - 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. --- ### 第八十五条（事案の移送） — (Transfer of Cases) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-85 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-85 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-85 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、開示請求に係る保有個人情報が当該行政機関の長等が属する行政機関等以外の行政機関等から提供されたものであるとき、その他他の行政機関の長等において開示決定等をすることにつき正当な理由があるときは、当該他の行政機関の長等と協議の上、当該他の行政機関の長等に対し、事案を移送することができる。この場合においては、移送をした行政機関の長等は、開示請求者に対し、事案を移送した旨を書面により通知しなければならない。 art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-85/par-1 An administrative organ's head or administrative entity may transfer the case to another head or entity upon consulting with them, if the personal information the administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for disclosure has been provided by an administrative entity other than one to which the head or entity in question belongs, or there are justifiable grounds for that other head or entity to make a decision on disclosure. In this case, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity that has transferred the case must notify the person requesting disclosure in writing to the effect that the case has been transferred. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により事案が移送されたときは、移送を受けた行政機関の長等において、当該開示請求についての開示決定等をしなければならない。この場合において、移送をした行政機関の長等が移送前にした行為は、移送を受けた行政機関の長等がしたものとみなす。 art-85/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-85/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-85/par-2 If a case has been transferred pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an administrative organ's head or administrative entity to which the case has been transferred must make a decision on disclosure in relation to the relevant request for disclosure. In this case, actions that the administrative organ's head or administrative entity that has transferred the case has made prior to the transfer are deemed to be those that the administrative organ's head or administrative entity to which the case has been transferred has made. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の場合において、移送を受けた行政機関の長等が第八十二条第一項の決定（以下この節において「開示決定」という。）をしたときは、当該行政機関の長等は、開示の実施をしなければならない。この場合において、移送をした行政機関の長等は、当該開示の実施に必要な協力をしなければならない。 art-85/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-85/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-85/par-3 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the administrative organ's head or administrative entity to which the case has been transferred makes a decision set forth in Article 82, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as a "decision to disclose" in this Section), the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must implement the disclosure. In this case, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity that has transferred the case must cooperate as necessary in the implementation of that disclosure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-85/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十五条第一項 (Article 85, paragraph (1)), art-85/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-85/par-1 - art-85/par-3: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十五条第二項 (Article 85, paragraph (2)), art-85/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-85/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-85/par-2 - art-85/par-3: 第八十二条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-82/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十五条第二項（事案の移送） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-85/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-85/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十五条第三項（事案の移送） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-85/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-85/par-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十六条第一項（事案の移送） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十五条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-185/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-185/par-1/item-3 - 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