# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第五十一条 (Article 51) - Law: 職業安定法 (Employment Security Act), 昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号 - English title "Employment Security 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51)（秘密を守る義務等） — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-51 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十一条（秘密を守る義務等） — (Duty to Maintain Confidentiality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-51 **第一項** 職業紹介事業者、求人者、労働者の募集を行う者、募集受託者、特定募集情報等提供事業者、労働者供給事業者及び労働者供給を受けようとする者（以下この条において「職業紹介事業者等」という。）並びにこれらの代理人、使用人その他の従業者は、正当な理由なく、その業務上取り扱つたことについて知り得た人の秘密を漏らしてはならない。職業紹介事業者等及びこれらの代理人、使用人その他の従業者でなくなつた後においても、同様とする。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-51/par-1 It is prohibited for a provider of employment placement services, job poster, person recruiting workers, commissioned recruiter, provider of recruitment/candidate information in a specified manner, provider of worker supply services, or person seeking to have workers supplied to it (hereinafter referred to as a "provider of employment placement services, etc." in this Article), or an agent, employee or any other worker of the provider of employment placement services, etc. to divulge a personal secret learned with respect to any matter handled in the course of operations, without reasonable grounds. The same applies even after the person is no longer a provider of employment placement services, etc., or an agent, employee, or any other worker of the provider of employment placement services, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 職業紹介事業者等及びこれらの代理人、使用人その他の従業者は、前項の秘密のほか、その業務に関して知り得た個人情報その他厚生労働省令で定める者に関する情報を、みだりに他人に知らせてはならない。職業紹介事業者等及びこれらの代理人、使用人その他の従業者でなくなつた後においても、同様とする。 art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-51/par-2 In addition to the secret referred to in the preceding paragraph, it is prohibited for a provider of employment placement services, etc., or an agent, employee or any other worker of the provider of employment placement services, etc. to inform another person of a piece of personal information, or of information concerning a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, that it has learned in connection with its operations, without due cause. The same applies even after the person is no longer a provider of employment placement services, etc., or an agent, employee, or any other worker of the provider of employment placement services, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-51/par-1: この条 → 職業安定法 第五十一条 (Article 51), art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-51 - art-51/par-2: 前項 → 職業安定法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-51/par-1 ## Cited by 12 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十六条第五項（委託募集の特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-16/par-5 - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第三十七条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-37/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-37/par-1/item-4 - 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十六条第五項（委託募集の特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-16/par-5 - 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第二十六条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-26/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-26/par-1/item-4 - 職業安定法 第四十三条の四第一項（事業の停止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-43-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-43-4/par-1 - 職業安定法 第五十一条第一項（秘密を守る義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-51/par-1 - 職業安定法 第五十一条第二項（秘密を守る義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-51/par-2 - 職業安定法 第六十六条第一項第十一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-66/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-66/par-1/item-11 - 職業安定法 附則第五条第一項（特定募集情報等提供事業に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/suppl-5041-12/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/suppl-5041-12/art-5/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第五十三条第五項（育児休業等取得者の業務を処理するために必要な労働者の募集の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-53/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-53/par-5 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第六十四条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-64/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-64/par-1/item-2 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第三十八条第三項（業務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-38/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 職業安定法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000141/20260401_506AC0000000050), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Security Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4627/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 職業安定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17