# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第二十一条 (Article 21) - Law: 社会保険労務士法 (Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance), 昭和四十三年法律第八十九号 - English title "Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（秘密を守る義務） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（秘密を守る義務） — Duty to Maintain Secrecy caption: machine translation, not official art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-21 **第一項** 開業社会保険労務士又は社会保険労務士法人の社員は、正当な理由がなくて、その業務に関して知り得た秘密を他に漏らし、又は盗用してはならない。開業社会保険労務士又は社会保険労務士法人の社員でなくなつた後においても、また同様とする。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-21/par-1 A self-employed labor and social security attorney or a member of a labor and social security attorney corporation must not, without justifiable grounds, divulge or misappropriate any secret learned in connection with the business. The same applies after the person has ceased to be a self-employed labor and social security attorney or a member of a labor and social security attorney corporation. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 社会保険労務士法 第三十二条の二第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-32-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-32-2/par-1/item-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 社会保険労務士法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/343AC1000000089/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 社会保険労務士法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/903), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch labor-and-social-security-attorney-act-20261018T205451-005, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 社会保険労務士法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18