# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4271-65/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4271-65/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して二年を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding 2 years from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items. machine translation, not official **一** 附則第七条第二項、第十条及び第十二条の規定　公布の日 suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-1 The provisions of Article 7, paragraph (2), Article 10, and Article 12 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation machine translation, not official **二** 第一条及び第四条並びに附則第五条、第六条、第七条第一項及び第三項、第八条、第九条、第十三条、第二十二条、第二十五条から第二十七条まで、第三十条、第三十二条、第三十四条並びに第三十七条の規定　平成二十八年一月一日 suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2 The provisions of Article 1 and Article 4, and Article 5, Article 6, Article 7, paragraphs (1) and (3), Article 8, Article 9, Article 13, Article 22, Articles 25 through 27, Article 30, Article 32, Article 34, and Article 37 of the Supplementary Provisions: January 1, 2016 machine translation, not official **三** 略 suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-3 Omitted machine translation, not official **四** 次条の規定　公布の日から起算して一年六月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日 suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-4 The provisions of the following Article: the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year and six months from the date of promulgation machine translation, not official **五** 第三条及び第六条（番号利用法第十九条第一号及び別表第一の改正規定を除く。）並びに附則第十九条の三、第二十四条、第二十九条の三及び第三十六条の規定　番号利用法附則第一条第五号に掲げる規定の施行の日 suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-5 The provisions of Article 3 and Article 6 (excluding the provision amending Article 19, item (i) and Appended Table 1 of the Number Use Act), and Article 19-3, Article 24, Article 29-3, and Article 36 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (v) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Number Use Act machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-1: 附則第七条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第七条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (2)), suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-2 - suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第十条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10), suppl-4271-65/art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-10 - suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第十二条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12), suppl-4271-65/art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-12 - suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2: 第七条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1 - suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2: 第三項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第七条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (3)), suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-3 - suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-2: 第九条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9), suppl-4271-65/art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-9 - suppl-4271-65/art-1/par-1/item-4: 次条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4271-65/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-2 ## 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 附則第七条第一項（委員長又は委員の任命等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第七条第二項（委員長又は委員の任命等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第七条第三項（委員長又は委員の任命等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第九条第一項（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-9/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-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T184447-001, 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