# 公益通報者保護法 / Whistleblower Protection Act — 第九条 (Article 9) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-9. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 公益通報者保護法 (Whistleblower Protection Act), 平成十六年法律第百二十二号 - English title "Whistleblower Protection 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（一般職の国家公務員等に対する取扱い） — address `art-9` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-9 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九条（一般職の国家公務員等に対する取扱い） — (Treatment of Regular Service National Public Employees or Other Public Employees) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-9 **第一項** 第三条各号に定める公益通報をしたことを理由とする一般職の国家公務員、裁判所職員臨時措置法（昭和二十六年法律第二百九十九号）の適用を受ける裁判所職員、国会職員法（昭和二十二年法律第八十五号）の適用を受ける国会職員、自衛隊法（昭和二十九年法律第百六十五号）第二条第五項に規定する隊員及び一般職の地方公務員（以下この条において「一般職の国家公務員等」という。）に対する免職その他不利益な取扱いの禁止については、第三条から第五条までの規定にかかわらず、国家公務員法（昭和二十二年法律第百二十号。裁判所職員臨時措置法において準用する場合を含む。）、国会職員法、自衛隊法及び地方公務員法（昭和二十五年法律第二百六十一号）の定めるところによる。この場合において、第二条第一項第一号に定める事業者は、第三条各号に定める公益通報をしたことを理由として一般職の国家公務員等に対して免職その他不利益な取扱いがされることのないよう、これらの法律の規定を適用しなければならない。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-9/par-1 The prohibition of dismissal or other disadvantageous treatment, on the grounds of having conducted whistleblowing provided for in the items of Article 3, of national public employees in the regular service, court employees to whom the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Court Officials (Act No. 299 of 1951) applies, Diet employees to whom the Diet Officers Act (Act No. 85 of 1947) applies, corps personnel provided for in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Self-Defense Forces Act (Act No. 165 of 1954), and local public employees in the regular service (referred to as "regular service national public employees, etc." in this Article) is governed, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 3 through 5, by the provisions of the National Public Service Act (Act No. 120 of 1947; including as applied mutatis mutandis under the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Court Officials), the Diet Officers Act, the Self-Defense Forces Act, and the Local Public Service Act (Act No. 261 of 1950). In this case, a business operator provided for in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) must apply the provisions of those Acts so that no dismissal or other disadvantageous treatment is imposed on regular service national public employees, etc. on the grounds of having conducted whistleblowing provided for in the items of Article 3. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-9/par-1: 第三条 → 公益通報者保護法 第三条 (Article 3), art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-3 - art-9/par-1: 自衛隊法（昭和二十九年法律第百六十五号）第二条第五項 → e-Gov law 329AC0000000165, 第二条第五項 (Article 2, paragraph (5)), art-2/par-5 — not held in this collection - art-9/par-1: この条 → 公益通報者保護法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-9 - art-9/par-1: 第三条から第五条まで → 公益通報者保護法 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-4 - art-9/par-1: 第三条から第五条まで → 公益通報者保護法 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-5 - art-9/par-1: 第二条第一項第一号 → 公益通報者保護法 第二条第一項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-2/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-2/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 公益通報者保護法 第三条第一項（解雇の無効） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-3/par-1 - 公益通報者保護法 第九条第一項（一般職の国家公務員等に対する取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/whistleblower-protection-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-9/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 公益通報者保護法 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000122/20260717_508AC0000000062), retrieved 2026-10-26 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Whistleblower Protection Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5109/tb), retrieved 2026-10-26 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch whistleblower-protection-act-20261026T133420-001, translated 2026-10-26 - This site's parser, version 218 — 公益通報者保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-26