# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) - 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: 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9)（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4271-65/art-9` - 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-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official 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 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定にあっては、当該規定）の施行前にした行為及び前条の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合における第二号施行日以後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4271-65/art-9/par-1 · 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 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions) comes into effect and to acts committed on or after the item (ii) Effective Date in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the preceding Article, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-65/art-9/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), 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 ## 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 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — 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 --- ## 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-20261010T184447-002, 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