# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第六十九条の十七 (Article 69-17)

- Law: 介護保険法 (Long-Term Care Insurance Act), 平成九年法律第百二十三号
- English title "Long-Term Care 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: 第六十九条の十七 (Article 69-17)（秘密保持義務等） — address `art-69-17`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-17
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-17
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### 第六十九条の十七（秘密保持義務等） — (Confidentiality Obligations)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-69-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-17</sup>

    **第一項**  登録試験問題作成機関の役員若しくは職員（第六十九条の十三第一号の試験委員を含む。次項において同じ。）又はこれらの職にあった者は、試験問題作成事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。
    <sup>art-69-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-17/par-1</sup>
    An Officer or other personnel of an Organization that Prepares Registration Examination Questions (including an examination board as set forth in Article 69-13, item (i); the same applies in the following paragraph) or a person that held this occupation must not divulge any confidential information that said person learns concerning any Examination Question Preparation Affairs.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An Officer or other personnel of an Organization that Prepares Registration Examination Questions (including an examination board as set forth in Article 69-13, paragraph (1); the same applies in the following paragraph) or a person that held this occupation must not divulge any confidential information that said person learns concerning any Examination Question Preparation Affairs." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb</sup>

    **第二項**  試験問題作成事務に従事する登録試験問題作成機関の役員又は職員は、刑法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。
    <sup>art-69-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-17/par-2</sup>
    An Officer or other personnel of an Organization that Prepares Registration Examination Questions who engages in Examination Question Preparation Affairs is deemed as personnel that engage in public service pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations with regard to application of the Penal Code and other penal provisions.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-69-17/par-1: 第六十九条の十三第一号 → 介護保険法 第六十九条の十三第一項第一号 (Article 69-13, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-69-13/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-13/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-13/par-1/item-1
- art-69-17/par-1: 次項 → 介護保険法 第六十九条の十七第二項 (Article 69-17, paragraph (2)), art-69-17/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-17/par-2

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 介護保険法 第六十九条の十七第一項（秘密保持義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-17/par-1
- 介護保険法 第二百五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-205/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-205/par-2

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 介護保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/409AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act (介護保険法), Article 69-17, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18
