# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十五条の二 (Article 85-2) - Law: 生活保護法 (Public Assistance Act), 昭和二十五年法律第百四十四号 - English title "Public Assistance 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: 第八十五条の二 (Article 85-2) — address `art-85-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-85-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-85-2 - 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. --- ### 第八十五条の二 art-85-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-85-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-85-2 **第一項** 第二十七条の三第六項、第五十五条の七第三項（第五十五条の八第三項及び第五十五条の十第二項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第五十五条の九第四項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。 art-85-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-85-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-85-2/par-1 A person who divulges a secret in violation of the provisions of Article 27-3, paragraph (6), Article 55-7, paragraph (3) (including the cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55-8, paragraph (3) and Article 55-10, paragraph (2)) and Article 55-9, paragraph (4) shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-85-2/par-1: 第二十七条の三第六項 → 生活保護法 第二十七条の三第六項 (Article 27-3, paragraph (6)), art-27-3/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-27-3/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-27-3/par-6 - art-85-2/par-1: 第五十五条の七第三項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の七第三項 (Article 55-7, paragraph (3)), art-55-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-7/par-3 - art-85-2/par-1: 第五十五条の八第三項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の八第三項 (Article 55-8, paragraph (3)), art-55-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-8/par-3 - art-85-2/par-1: 第五十五条の十第二項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の十第二項 (Article 55-10, paragraph (2)), art-55-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-10/par-2 - art-85-2/par-1: 第五十五条の九第四項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の九第四項 (Article 55-9, paragraph (4)), art-55-9/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 生活保護法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/325AC0000000144/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Public Assistance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/24/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-008, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19