# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（本人の同意に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4151-57/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4151-57/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4151-57/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（本人の同意に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Consent of the Identifiable Person caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4151-57/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4151-57/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4151-57/art-2 **第一項** この法律の施行前になされた本人の個人情報の取扱いに関する同意がある場合において、その同意が第十五条第一項の規定により特定される利用目的以外の目的で個人情報を取り扱うことを認める旨の同意に相当するものであるときは、第十六条第一項又は第二項の同意があったものとみなす。 suppl-4151-57/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4151-57/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4151-57/art-2/par-1 If there is consent of the identifiable person concerning the handling of personal information on the identifiable person that was given before the enforcement of this Act, and that consent corresponds to consent to the handling of personal information for a purpose other than the purpose of use specified under Article 15, paragraph (1), the consent referred to in Article 16, paragraph (1) or (2) is deemed to have been given. machine translation, not official ## 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 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4151-57/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4151-57/art-1/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T182616-001, translated 2026-10-11 - 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