# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十条 (Article 30)

- Law: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 (Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People), 昭和五十七年法律第八十号
- English title "Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People": 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: 第三十条 (Article 30)（秘密保持義務） — address `art-30`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-30
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-30
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### 第三十条（秘密保持義務） — (duty of confidentiality)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-30</sup>

  **第一項**  第二十八条の規定により保険者から特定健康診査等の実施の委託を受けた者（その者が法人である場合にあつては、その役員）若しくはその職員又はこれらの者であつた者は、その実施に関して知り得た個人の秘密を正当な理由がなく漏らしてはならない。
  <sup>art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-30/par-1</sup>
  A person who has been entrusted with the implementation of Special health examinations, etc., by Insurers pursuant to the provisions of Article 28 (if the person is a corporation, its officers) or its employees, or a person who used to be any of these persons must not, without justifiable grounds, divulge any personal secrets that have come to their knowledge in the course of the implementation.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-30/par-1: 第二十八条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十八条 (Article 28), art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-28

## Cited by

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

- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-167/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-167/par-1
- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-1/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/357AC0000000080/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19
