# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（名称の使用制限に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4151-57/art-6` - 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-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4151-57/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（名称の使用制限に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Restriction on Name Use caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4151-57/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4151-57/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4151-57/art-6 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に認定個人情報保護団体という名称又はこれに紛らわしい名称を用いている者については、第四十五条の規定は、同条の規定の施行後六月間は、適用しない。 suppl-4151-57/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4151-57/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4151-57/art-6/par-1 With respect to a person that is actually using the name "certified personal information protection organization" or a name confusingly similar to it at the time this Act comes into effect, the provisions of Article 45 do not apply for six months after the provisions of that Article come into effect. 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