# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百九十三条 (Article 293) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-293. 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: 家事事件手続法 (Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act), 平成二十三年法律第五十二号 - English title "Domestic Relations Case Procedure 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: 第二百九十三条 (Article 293)（評議の秘密を漏らす罪） — address `art-293` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-293 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-293 - 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. --- ### 第二百九十三条（評議の秘密を漏らす罪） — (Crime of Divulging Confidential Information on Proceedings of Deliberations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-293 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-293 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-293 **第一項** 家事調停委員又は家事調停委員であった者が正当な理由なく評議の経過又は裁判官、家事調停官若しくは家事調停委員の意見若しくはその多少の数を漏らしたときは、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。参与員又は参与員であった者が正当な理由なく裁判官又は参与員の意見を漏らしたときも、同様とする。 art-293/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-293/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-293/par-1 If a domestic relations mediation commissioner or a person who has been a domestic relations mediation commissioner, without justifiable grounds, divulges any matters with respect to the proceedings of the deliberations of the committee, or the opinions of a judge, domestic relations mediator or domestic relations mediation commissioner or the number of opinions constituting the majority and the minority, the person is punished by a fine of up to 300,000 yen. The same applies when a counselor or a person who has been a counselor, without justifiable grounds, divulges the opinions of a judge or counselor. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a domestic relations conciliation commissioner or a person who has been a domestic relations conciliation commissioner, without justifiable grounds, divulges any matters with respect to the proceedings of the deliberations of the committee, or the opinions of a judge, domestic relations conciliator or domestic relations conciliation commissioner or the number of opinions constituting the majority and the minority, the person is punished by a fine of up to 300,000 yen. The same applies when a counselor or a person who has been a counselor, without justifiable grounds, divulges the opinions of a judge or counselor." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 家事事件手続法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/423AC0000000052/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act (家事事件手続法), Article 293, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05