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Article 48

第四十八条

If a person who is engaged or was engaged in processes related to a Process Using an Individual Number, etc. or in the designation or notification of Individual Numbers under the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) or (2) of this Act, in the generation or notification of the number to be an Individual Number under the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2), or in the provision of Identity Confirmation Information Retained by the Agency, etc. under the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (2) provides, without justifiable grounds, Specific Personal Information Files containing information classified as individual secrets that were handled in the course of the operation (including Specific Personal Information Files of which all or part is copied or processed), this person is punished by imprisonment for four years or less, by a fine of two million yen or less, or by both.

個人番号利用事務等又は第七条第一項若しくは第二項の規定による個人番号の指定若しくは通知、第八条第二項の規定による個人番号とすべき番号の生成若しくは通知若しくは第十四条第二項の規定による機構保存本人確認情報等の提供に関する事務に従事する者又は従事していた者が、正当な理由がないのに、その業務に関して取り扱った個人の秘密に属する事項が記録された特定個人情報ファイル(その全部又は一部を複製し、又は加工した特定個人情報ファイルを含む。)を提供したときは、四年以下の拘禁刑若しくは二百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。

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