# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第八十六条 (Article 86) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care 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: 第八十六条 (Article 86) — address `art-86` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-86 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-86 - 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. --- ### 第八十六条 art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-86 **第一項** 第五条第二項若しくは第二十五条第二項若しくは第四項の規定による診療録若しくは助産録の提出又は同条第一項若しくは第三項の規定による診療録若しくは助産録の検査に関する事務に従事した公務員又は公務員であつた者が、その職務の執行に関して知り得た医師、歯科医師若しくは助産師の業務上の秘密又は個人の秘密を正当な理由がなく漏らしたときは、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-86/par-1 A person who is or was a public officer engaged in affairs related to the submission of medical records or birth records pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (2), Article 25, paragraph (2) or (4), or the inspection of medical records or birth records pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (3) of the same Article, who has, without justifiable grounds, divulged any secret or personal confidential information in relation to the services of physicians, dentists, or midwives which has come to their knowledge through the execution of their duties, is punished by imprisonment for up to one year or a fine of up to 500,000 yen. machine translation, not official **第二項** 職務上前項の秘密を知り得た他の公務員又は公務員であつた者が、正当な理由がなくその秘密を漏らしたときも、同項と同様とする。 art-86/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-86/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-86/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph also apply to a person who is or was a public officer other than those who have come to have knowledge of a secret in the course of their duties as set forth in the preceding paragraph, who has divulged such a secret without justifiable grounds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第六条の十三第四項、第六条の二十一、第六条の二十二第二項、第三十条の二十一第五項又は第三十条の二十五第六項の規定に違反した者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-86/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-86/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-86/par-3 A person who has violated the provisions of Article 6-13, paragraph (4), Article 6-21, Article 6-22, paragraph (2), Article 30-21, paragraph (5), or Article 30-25, paragraph (6) is punished by imprisonment for up to one year or a fine of up to 500,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-86/par-1: 第五条第二項 → 医療法 第五条第二項 (Article 5, paragraph (2)), art-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-5/par-2 - art-86/par-1: 第二十五条第二項 → 医療法 第二十五条第二項 (Article 25, paragraph (2)), art-25/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-2 - art-86/par-1: 第四項 → 医療法 第二十五条第四項 (Article 25, paragraph (4)), art-25/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-4 - art-86/par-1: 同条第一項 → 医療法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-1 - art-86/par-1: 第三項 → 医療法 第二十五条第三項 (Article 25, paragraph (3)), art-25/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-3 - art-86/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第八十六条第一項 (Article 86, paragraph (1)), art-86/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-86/par-1 - art-86/par-3: 第六条の十三第四項 → 医療法 第六条の十三第四項 (Article 6-13, paragraph (4)), art-6-13/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-13/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-13/par-4 - art-86/par-3: 第六条の二十一 → 医療法 第六条の二十一 (Article 6-21), art-6-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-21 - art-86/par-3: 第六条の二十二第二項 → 医療法 第六条の二十二第二項 (Article 6-22, paragraph (2)), art-6-22/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-22/par-2 - art-86/par-3: 第三十条の二十一第五項 → 医療法 第三十条の二十一第五項 (Article 30-21, paragraph (5)), art-30-21/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-21/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-21/par-5 - art-86/par-3: 第三十条の二十五第六項 → 医療法 第三十条の二十五第六項 (Article 30-25, paragraph (6)), art-30-25/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-25/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-25/par-6 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第八十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-86/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-86/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-010, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19