# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十五条の三十八 (Article 115-38) - Law: 介護保険法 (Long-Term Care Insurance Act), 平成九年法律第百二十三号 - English title "Long-Term Care Insurance 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: 第百十五条の三十八 (Article 115-38)（秘密保持義務等） — address `art-115-38` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-38 - 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. --- ### 第百十五条の三十八（秘密保持義務等） — Confidentiality Obligations caption: machine translation, not official art-115-38 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-38 **第一項** 指定調査機関（その者が法人である場合にあっては、その役員。次項において同じ。）若しくはその職員（調査員を含む。同項において同じ。）又はこれらの職にあった者は、調査事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-115-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-38/par-1 A Designated Investigative Agency (in a case when said person is a juridical person, its officers; the same applies in the following paragraph), said personnel (including an investigator; the same applies in the same paragraph), or a person that was in any of these positions must not divulge any confidential information that said person learned concerning Investigation Affairs. machine translation, not official **第二項** 指定調査機関及びその職員で調査事務に従事する者は、刑法その他の罰則の適用については、法令により公務に従事する職員とみなす。 art-115-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-38/par-2 A Designated Investigative Agency and said personnel who engage in Investigation Affairs are deemed to be personnel engaged in public service pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations with regard to application of the Penal Code and other penal provisions. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-115-38/par-1: 次項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の三十八第二項 (Article 115-38, paragraph (2)), art-115-38/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-38/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百十五条の三十八第一項（秘密保持義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-38/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百十五条の四十二第三項（指定情報公表センターの指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-42/par-3 - 介護保険法 第二百五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-205/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-205/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 介護保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/409AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T203319-030, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18