# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第二十五条の四十二 (Article 25-42) - Law: 社会保険労務士法 (Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance), 昭和四十三年法律第八十九号 - English title "Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第二十五条の四十二 (Article 25-42)（秘密を守る義務等） — address `art-25-42` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-42 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条の四十二（秘密を守る義務等） — Duty to Maintain Confidentiality caption: machine translation, not official art-25-42 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-42 **第一項** 試験事務に従事する連合会の役員若しくは職員（試験委員を含む。次項において同じ。）又はこれらの職にあつた者は、試験事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-25-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-42/par-1 An officer or staff member of the Federation who engages in examination administration (including an examiner; the same applies in the following paragraph), or a person who has held such a position, must not divulge secrets that the person has learned in relation to examination administration. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項に規定する連合会の役員又は職員は、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）その他の罰則の適用については、法令により公務に従事する職員とみなす。 art-25-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-42/par-2 An officer or staff member of the Federation prescribed in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be a staff member engaged in public service pursuant to laws and regulations for the purpose of the application of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) and other penal provisions. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-25-42/par-1: 次項 → 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の四十二第二項 (Article 25-42, paragraph (2)), art-25-42/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-42/par-2 - art-25-42/par-2: 前項 → 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の四十二第一項 (Article 25-42, paragraph (1)), art-25-42/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-42/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の四十二第一項（秘密を守る義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-42/par-1 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の四十二第二項（秘密を守る義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-42/par-2 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の四十五の二第一項（代理業務試験事務への試験事務に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-45-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-45-2/par-1 - 社会保険労務士法 第三十二条の二第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-32-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-32-2/par-1/item-5 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 社会保険労務士法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/343AC1000000089/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 社会保険労務士法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/903), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch labor-and-social-security-attorney-act-20261018T205451-012, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 社会保険労務士法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18