# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第九条 (Article 9) - 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（地方公共団体等への支援） — address `art-9` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条（地方公共団体等への支援） — (Support for Local Governments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-9 **第一項** 国は、地方公共団体が策定し、又は実施する個人情報の保護に関する施策及び国民又は事業者等が個人情報の適正な取扱いの確保に関して行う活動を支援するため、情報の提供、地方公共団体又は事業者等が講ずべき措置の適切かつ有効な実施を図るための指針の策定その他の必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-9/par-1 The national government is to take the necessary measures, such as providing information and formulating guidelines to ensure that local governments and businesses properly and effectively implement the measures that they are required to take, in order to support measures to protect personal information which local governments formulate and implement, and in order to support actions that the people or businesses take to ensure the proper handling of personal information. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第十一条第一項（事業者等が講ずべき措置の適切かつ有効な実施を図るための指針の策定に当たっての配慮） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-11/par-1 --- ## 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