# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第十一条の十九 (Article 11-19) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-19. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 消費者安全法 (Consumer Safety Act), 平成二十一年法律第五十号 - English title "Consumer Safety Act": 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: 第十一条の十九 (Article 11-19)（秘密保持義務等） — address `art-11-19` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-19 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十一条の十九（秘密保持義務等） — (Duty of Confidentiality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-11-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-19 **第一項** 登録試験機関の役員若しくは職員（試験委員を含む。次項において同じ。）又はこれらの職にあった者は、試験業務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-11-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-19/par-1 Any of those who are or were the officers or personnel (including examiners; the same applies in the following paragraph) of a Registered Testing Organization must not divulge any confidential information learned in the course of the Testing Tasks. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 試験業務に従事する登録試験機関の役員又は職員は、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）その他の罰則の適用については、法令により公務に従事する職員とみなす。 art-11-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-19/par-2 The officers or personnel of a Registered Testing Organization engaged in Testing Tasks are deemed to be officials engaged in public services pursuant to laws and regulations, for the purpose of applying the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) and other penal provisions. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The officers or personnel of a Registered Testing Organization engaged in Testing Tasks are deemed to be an official engaged in public services pursuant to laws and regulations, for the purpose of applying the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) and other penal provisions." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb --- ## Cites - art-11-19/par-1: 次項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の十九第二項 (Article 11-19, paragraph (2)), art-11-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-19/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第十一条の十九第一項（秘密保持義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-19/par-1 - 消費者安全法 第五十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-53/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Consumer Safety Act, written 2026-11-02 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 消費者安全法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421AC0000000050/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Consumer Safety Act (消費者安全法), Article 11-19, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Consumer Safety Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - This site's parser, version 219 — 消費者安全法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01