# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百四十三条 (Article 143) - Law: 個人情報の保護に関する法律 (Act on the Protection of Personal Information), 平成十五年法律第五十七号 - English title "Act on the Protection of Personal Information": 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: 第百四十三条 (Article 143)（秘密保持義務） — address `art-143` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-143 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-143 - 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. --- ### 第百四十三条（秘密保持義務） — (Confidentiality Obligations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-143 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-143 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-143 **第一項** 委員長、委員、専門委員及び事務局の職員は、職務上知ることのできた秘密を漏らし、又は盗用してはならない。その職務を退いた後も、同様とする。 art-143/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-143/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-143/par-1 The chairperson, commissioners, specialist commissioners, and secretarial staff must not divulge or misappropriate any secret that have come to their knowledge in the course of duties. The same also applies after they have left their position. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-177/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-177/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 個人情報の保護に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000057/20261001_507AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Protection of Personal Information — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4241/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 190 — 個人情報の保護に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10