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Article 176

第百七十六条

If an employee or former employee of an administrative entity, a person engaged in or formerly engaged in duties prescribed in the items of Article 66, paragraph (2) or in entrusted duties under Article 73, paragraph (5) or Article 121, paragraph (3), or a dispatched worker that is or was engaged in handling personal information, pseudonymized personal information or anonymized personal information in an administrative entity provides other persons with a personal information file (including a personal information file all or part of which has been reproduced or processed) relating to Article 60, paragraph (2), item (i) that contains confidential information on individuals without justifiable grounds, that person is subject to imprisonment for not more than two years or to a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen.

行政機関等の職員若しくは職員であった者、第六十六条第二項各号に定める業務若しくは第七十三条第五項若しくは第百二十一条第三項の委託を受けた業務に従事している者若しくは従事していた者又は行政機関等において個人情報、仮名加工情報若しくは匿名加工情報の取扱いに従事している派遣労働者若しくは従事していた派遣労働者が、正当な理由がないのに、個人の秘密に属する事項が記録された第六十条第二項第一号に係る個人情報ファイル(その全部又は一部を複製し、又は加工したものを含む。)を提供したときは、二年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。

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