# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第十一条の五 (Article 11-5)

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- 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: 第十一条の五 (Article 11-5)（秘密保持義務） — address `art-11-5`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-5
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### 第十一条の五（秘密保持義務） — (Duty of Confidentiality)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-11-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-5</sup>

  **第一項**  協議会の事務に従事する者又は協議会の事務に従事していた者は、協議会の事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。
  <sup>art-11-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-5/par-1</sup>
  Any of those who engage or engaged in the administrative processes of a Council must not divulge confidential information learned in the course of those administrative processes.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 消費者安全法 第十一条の六第一項（協議会の定める事項） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-6/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

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## Sources

- 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 — 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
