# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第九十六条 (Article 96) - 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: 第九十六条 (Article 96)（事案の移送） — address `art-96` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96 - 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. --- ### 第九十六条（事案の移送） — (Transfer of Cases) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、訂正請求に係る保有個人情報が第八十五条第三項の規定に基づく開示に係るものであるとき、その他他の行政機関の長等において訂正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、訂正請求者に対し、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-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/par-1 An administrative organ's head or administrative entity may transfer the case to another head or entity upon consulting them, if the personal information the administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for correction is disclosed pursuant to Article 85, paragraph (3), or there are justifiable grounds for that other head or entity to make a decision on correction. In this case, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity that has transferred the case must notify the person requesting correction to the effect that the case has been transferred in writing. 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、当該訂正請求についての訂正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-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/par-2 If a case has been transferred pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity to which the case has been transferred must make a decision on correction in relation to the relevant request for correction. 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九十三条第一項の決定（以下この項及び次条において「訂正決定」という。）をしたときは、移送をした行政機関の長等は、当該訂正決定に基づき訂正の実施をしなければならない。 art-96/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/par-3 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the administrative organ's head or administrative entity to which the case has been transferred makes a decision referred to in Article 93, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as a "decision to make a correction" in this paragraph and the following Article), the administrative organ's head or administrative entity that has transferred the case must implement the correction based on that decision to make a correction. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-96/par-1: 第八十五条第三項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十五条第三項 (Article 85, paragraph (3)), 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 - art-96/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十六条第一項 (Article 96, paragraph (1)), art-96/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/par-1 - art-96/par-3: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十六条第二項 (Article 96, paragraph (2)), art-96/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/par-2 - art-96/par-3: 第九十三条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十三条第一項 (Article 93, paragraph (1)), art-93/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-93/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-93/par-1 - art-96/par-3: この項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十六条第三項 (Article 96, paragraph (3)), art-96/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/par-3 - art-96/par-3: 次条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十七条 (Article 97), art-97 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-97 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十六条第二項（事案の移送） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十六条第三項（事案の移送） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/par-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