# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第百三十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 139) - 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: 第百三十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 139) — address `suppl-3231-205/art-139` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-139 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-139 - 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. --- ### 第百三十九条 suppl-3231-205/art-139 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-139 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-139 **第一項** 医療機関勤務環境評価センターの役員若しくは職員又はこれらの者であつた者は、正当な理由がなく、評価等業務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 suppl-3231-205/art-139/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-139/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-139/par-1 An officer or employee of a medical institution work environment evaluation center, or a person who has been one, must not disclose, without justifiable grounds, any secret learned in relation to the evaluation services, etc. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第百四十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-146/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-146/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百四十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-147/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-014, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19