# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

- 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-5011-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5011-16
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5011-16
- 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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## 附　則 令和元年五月三一日法律第一六号
<sup>suppl-5011-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5011-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5011-16</sup>

### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5011-16/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5011-16/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5011-16/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、公布の日から起算して九月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。
<sup>suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding 9 months from the date of promulgation.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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