Article 55-9Surveys and Analyses, etc. for Implementation of the Health Management Support Programme for Public Assistance Recipients
第五十五条の九（被保護者健康管理支援事業の実施のための調査及び分析等）
In order to contribute to the implementation of the health management support programme for public assistance recipients, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to conduct surveys and analyses of information concerning the medical care of public assistance recipients, such as trends in illnesses of public assistance recipients by age and by region, and provide the results of those surveys and analyses to public assistance administrators.
厚生労働大臣は、被保護者健康管理支援事業の実施に資するため、被保護者の年齢別及び地域別の疾病の動向その他被保護者の医療に関する情報について調査及び分析を行い、保護の実施機関に対して、当該調査及び分析の結果を提供するものとする。
A public assistance administrator must provide the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, with the information necessary for carrying out the investigation and analysis under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may entrust part of the affairs relating to the investigation and analysis under the provisions of paragraph (1) to a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. In this case, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide the person so entrusted with the information necessary for that investigation and analysis, within the scope necessary for carrying out that investigation and analysis.
厚生労働大臣は、第一項の規定による調査及び分析に係る事務の一部を厚生労働省令で定める者に委託することができる。この場合において、厚生労働大臣は、委託を受けた者に対して、当該調査及び分析の実施に必要な範囲内において、当該調査及び分析に必要な情報を提供することができる。
A person entrusted under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an officer or employee of such a person, or a person who formerly was any of them, must not divulge any secret learned in connection with the affairs so entrusted.
前項の規定による委託を受けた者若しくはその役員若しくは職員又はこれらの者であつた者は、その委託を受けた事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。