# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第十一条の八 (Article 11-8)

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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: 第十一条の八 (Article 11-8)（秘密保持義務） — address `art-11-8`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-8
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### 第十一条の八（秘密保持義務） — (Duty of Confidentiality)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-11-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-8</sup>

  **第一項**  消費生活協力団体の役員若しくは職員若しくは消費生活協力員又はこれらの者であった者は、前条第二項各号に掲げる活動に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。
  <sup>art-11-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-8/par-1</sup>
  Any of the officers or personnel of consumer affairs support groups or consumer affairs supporters or those who were any of them must not divulge any confidential information learned in the course of the activities set forth in the items of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-11-8/par-1: 前条第二項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の七第二項 (Article 11-7, paragraph (2)), art-11-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-7/par-2

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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