# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六条の二十一 (Article 6-21) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care 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: 第六条の二十一 (Article 6-21) — address `art-6-21` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-21 - 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. --- ### 第六条の二十一 art-6-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-21 **第一項** 医療事故調査・支援センターの役員若しくは職員又はこれらの者であつた者は、正当な理由がなく、調査等業務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-6-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-21/par-1 No officer or employee of the medical accident investigation and support center, or any former officer or employee thereof must divulge any secret obtained in connection with the investigation services, etc. without justifiable grounds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第八十六条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-86/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-86/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19