governor or head of municipality, or where the prefectural governor or head of municipality provides to the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency or another prefectural governor or head of municipality Specific Personal Information pertaining to national tax or local tax pursuant to the provisions of Article 46, paragraph (4) or (5); Article 48, paragraph (7); Article 72-58; Article 317; or Article 325 of the Local Tax Act and provisions of said Act specified by Cabinet Order, or provisions of Acts on national taxes (meaning national taxes as set forth in Article 2, item (i) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes (Act No. 66 of 1962); the same shall apply hereinafter), when taking measures provided for by Cabinet Order as measures necessary for ensuring the safety of said Specific Personal Information; (ix) when a local government agency provides to another agency of said local government Specific Personal Information to the extent necessary for processing the affairs pursuant to the provisions of Prefectural Ordinances;

(x) in cases where a Book-entry Transfer Institution, etc. as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act on Book-Entry of Company Bonds, Shares, etc. (Act No. 75 of 2001) (hereinafter the institution, etc. shall be referred to simply as "Book-entry Transfer Institution, etc." in this item) provides to an issuer of company bonds, etc. as set forth in paragraph (1) of said Article (hereinafter the bonds, etc. shall be referred to simply as "Company Bond, etc." in this item) (the issuer shall include persons who are provided for by Cabinet Order as persons equivalent thereto) or to another Book-entry Transfer Institution, etc. Specific Personal Information including the Individual Number that is notified by a person who opens an account for book-entry transfer of Company Bonds, etc. to a Book-entry Transfer Institution, etc. where the person who opens said account, as the Individual Number to be stated in the documents set forth in Article 9, paragraph (3) of this Act (limited to documents submitted to the district director of the tax office pursuant to the provisions of Article 225, paragraph (1) of the Income Tax Act (limited to the part pertaining to items (i), (ii), (viii) or items (x) through (xii)) using an electronic data processing system that connects computers used by said persons to one another via telecommunication lines where an account for book-entry transfer of Company Bonds, etc. is recorded, pursuant to the provisions of said Act or orders based on said Act, when taking measures provided for by Cabinet Order as measures necessary for ensuring the safety of said Specific Personal Information;

(xi) when providing Specific Personal Information requested pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1) of this Act to the Specific Personal Information Protection Commission;

(xii) when implementing an examination or investigation by the House or Commission of each House or Committee of House of Councillors pursuant to the provisions of Article 104, paragraph (1) of the Diet Act (Act No. 79 of 1947) or Article 1 of the Act on Witnesses' Oath, Testimony, etc. Before Both Houses of the Diet (Act No. 225 of 1947), procedures in court such as court proceedings, an execution of judicial decisions, an investigation of criminal cases, an investigations into criminal cases pursuant to the provisions of the Act on taxation, or the audit of the accounting of the Public Corporation by the Board of Audit (hereinafter collectively referred to as "House Examination, etc." in Article 53), or in any