# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第九十九条 (Article 99) - 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: 第九十九条 (Article 99)（利用停止請求の手続） — address `art-99` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九十九条（利用停止請求の手続） — (Procedures for Request for Ceasing to Use Personal Information) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-99 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99 **第一項** 利用停止請求は、次に掲げる事項を記載した書面（第三項において「利用停止請求書」という。）を行政機関の長等に提出してしなければならない。 art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99/par-1 For a request for ceasing to use personal information, a document describing the matters listed in the following (referred to as a "written request for ceasing to use personal information" in paragraph (3)) must be submitted to the administrative organ's head or administrative entity: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 利用停止請求をする者の氏名及び住所又は居所 art-99/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99/par-1/item-1 the name and address or residence of the person making a request for ceasing to use personal information; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 利用停止請求に係る保有個人情報の開示を受けた日その他当該保有個人情報を特定するに足りる事項 art-99/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99/par-1/item-2 the date of disclosure of the personal information the administrative entity holds that is subject to the request for ceasing to use personal information, and other matters sufficient for specifying that personal information; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 利用停止請求の趣旨及び理由 art-99/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99/par-1/item-3 an outline of the request for ceasing to use personal information and the grounds for it. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、利用停止請求をする者は、政令で定めるところにより、利用停止請求に係る保有個人情報の本人であること（前条第二項の規定による利用停止請求にあっては、利用停止請求に係る保有個人情報の本人の代理人であること）を示す書類を提示し、又は提出しなければならない。 art-99/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the person making a request for ceasing to use personal information must present or submit a document to indicate that the person is identifiable by the personal information the administrative entity holds that is subject to the request for the cessation (or the agent of the identifiable person, in the case of a request for ceasing to use personal information that is made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 行政機関の長等は、利用停止請求書に形式上の不備があると認めるときは、利用停止請求をした者（以下この節において「利用停止請求者」という。）に対し、相当の期間を定めて、その補正を求めることができる。 art-99/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99/par-3 When an administrative organ's head or administrative entity finds that there is a formal deficiency of a written request for ceasing to use personal information, the head or entity may ask the person having made the request for ceasing to use personal information (hereinafter referred to as a "person making a request for ceasing to use personal information" in this Section) to amend that request, by setting a reasonable period of time. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-99/par-1: 第三項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十九条第三項 (Article 99, paragraph (3)), art-99/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99/par-3 - art-99/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十九条第一項 (Article 99, paragraph (1)), art-99/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99/par-1 - art-99/par-2: 前条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十八条第二項 (Article 98, paragraph (2)), art-98/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-98/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-98/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十九条第一項（利用停止請求の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十九条第二項（利用停止請求の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-99/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-99/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二条第一項（利用停止決定等の期限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-102/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