# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第十一条 (Article 11)

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- Law: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号
- English title "Personal Status Litigation 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: 第十一条 (Article 11)（秘密漏示に対する制裁） — address `art-11`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-11
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-11
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### 第十一条（秘密漏示に対する制裁） — (Sanctions for Unlawful Disclosure of Confidential Information)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-11</sup>

    **第一項**  参与員又は参与員であった者が正当な理由なくその職務上取り扱ったことについて知り得た人の秘密を漏らしたときは、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
    <sup>art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-11/par-1</sup>
    If a current or former court advisor divulges, without legitimate grounds, a personal secret learned in relation to the matters they have handled in the course of duty, they are subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a current or former court advisor divulges a personal secret learned in relation to the matters they have handled in the course of duty, they are subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb</sup>

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Personal Status Litigation Act, written 2026-11-03
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act (人事訴訟法), Article 11, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02
- This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02