# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二百七条の二 (Article 207-2)

- Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号
- English title "Health 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: 第二百七条の二 (Article 207-2) — address `art-207-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-207-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-207-2
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### 第二百七条の二
<sup>art-207-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-207-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-207-2</sup>

**第一項**  第七条の三十七第一項（同条第二項及び第二十二条の二において準用する場合を含む。）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百万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-207-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-207-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-207-2/par-1</sup>
A person who divulges a secret in violation of the provisions of Article 7-37, paragraph (1) (including when applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the same Article and Article 22-2) is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-207-2/par-1: 第七条の三十七第一項 → 健康保険法 第七条の三十七第一項 (Article 7-37, paragraph (1)), art-7-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-7-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-37/par-1
- art-207-2/par-1: 同条第二項 → 健康保険法 第七条の三十七第二項 (Article 7-37, paragraph (2)), art-7-37/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-7-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-37/par-2
- art-207-2/par-1: 第二十二条の二 → 健康保険法 第二十二条の二 (Article 22-2), art-22-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-22-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-22-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-006, translated 2026-10-11
- This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10