# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10)

- 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: 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10)（第五十一条と条例との関係） — address `suppl-5031-37/art-10`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-10
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-10
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### 第十条（第五十一条と条例との関係） — Relationship Between Article 51 and Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5031-37/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-10</sup>

**第一項**  地方公共団体の条例の規定で、第五十一条改正後個人情報保護法で規制する行為を処罰する旨を定めているものの当該行為に係る部分については、第五十一条の規定の施行と同時に、その効力を失うものとする。
<sup>suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-1</sup>
The part concerning the relevant act of a provision of a local government's Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance that provides for the punishment of an act regulated by the Act on the Protection of Personal Information as Amended by Article 51 ceases to be effective at the same time as the provisions of Article 51 come into effect.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の規定により条例の規定がその効力を失う場合において、当該地方公共団体が条例で別段の定めをしないときは、その失効前にした違反行為の処罰については、その失効後も、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-2</sup>
In the case where a provision of a Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance ceases to be effective pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the local government concerned does not provide otherwise by Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance, with regard to the punishment of violations committed before the provision ceases to be effective, the provisions then in force continue to govern even after it ceases to be effective.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第十条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10, paragraph (1)), suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-1

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第一条第一項第七号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-7
- 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第八条第一項（第五十一条の規定の施行に伴う準備行為） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-8/par-1
- 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第十条第二項（第五十一条と条例との関係） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5031-37/art-10/par-2

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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-20261010T184447-004, 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
