# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百八条の七 (Article 108-7) - Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号 - English title "Road Traffic 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: 第百八条の七 (Article 108-7)（秘密保持義務等） — address `art-108-7` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-7 - 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. --- ### 第百八条の七（秘密保持義務等） — (Duty of Confidentiality; Related Considerations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-108-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-7 **第一項** 指定講習機関の役員（法人でない指定自動車教習所にあつては当該施設を設置する者。次項において同じ。）若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、特定講習の業務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-108-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-7/par-1 It is prohibited for the current or former officer (or the person operating the facility, if the designated driving school in question is not a corporation; the same applies in the following paragraph) or employee of a designated training institution to divulge confidential information learned in connection with specified training operations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 特定講習の業務に従事する指定講習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。 art-108-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-7/par-2 To apply the Penal Code and other penal provisions, the officers and employees of designated training institutions who are engaged in specified training operations are deemed to be employees engaged in public service pursuant to laws and regulations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-108-7/par-1: 次項 → 道路交通法 第百八条の七第二項 (Article 108-7, paragraph (2)), art-108-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-7/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百八条の七第一項（秘密保持義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-7/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百八条の十二第一項（国家公安委員会規則への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-12/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の五第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-117-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-5/par-1/item-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13