# 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 / Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims — 第三十条 (Article 30) - Law: 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 (Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims), 平成十三年法律第三十一号 - English title "Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims": 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: 第三十条 (Article 30) — address `art-30` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-30 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-30 - 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. --- ### 第三十条 art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-30 **第一項** 第三条第五項又は第五条の三の規定に違反して秘密を漏らした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-30/par-1 A person who has divulged a secret in violation of Article 3, paragraph (5) or Article 5-3 is punished by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person who has divulged a secret in violation of Article 3, paragraph (5) or Article 5-3 is punished by imprisonment under the new Penal Code for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4476/tb --- ## Cites - art-30/par-1: 第三条第五項 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第三条第五項 (Article 3, paragraph (5)), art-3/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-5 - art-30/par-1: 第五条の三 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第五条の三 (Article 5-3), art-5-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-5-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-5-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 附則第四条第一項（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/suppl-5051-30/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/suppl-5051-30/art-4/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0100000031/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4476/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims (配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律), Article 30, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4476/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10