①If a detainee who is injured or ill applies to receive medical treatment from a physician, etc. (excluding a physician or dentist on staff and a physician, etc. commissioned by the director of an immigration detention center, etc.) whom the detainee designates, and the director of an immigration detention center, etc. finds it medically appropriate for the detainee in light of the type and degree of the injury or illness, the fact that the detainee had been receiving medical treatment from that physician, etc. before being detained in the immigration detention center, etc., and other circumstances, the director may permit the detainee to receive that medical treatment at the detainee's own expense within the immigration detention center, etc. or at a hospital or clinic that the director of an immigration detention center, etc. finds appropriate.

②In the case where the director of the immigration detention center, etc. permits a detainee to receive medical treatment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if it is necessary in order to confirm the treatment methods of the physician, etc. providing the treatment set forth in that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the "designated physician" in this Article), or in order to subsequently provide medical treatment to the detainee at the immigration detention center, etc., the director may have an official of the immigration detention center, etc. be present at the treatment or question the designated physician about the treatment, or may request the submission of a copy of the medical records and other materials concerning the treatment.

③In providing medical treatment, the designated physician must comply with the matters that the director of the immigration detention center, etc. instructs pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order.

④In the case where the director of the immigration detention center, etc. has permitted a detainee to receive medical treatment pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), if the designated physician does not follow the measures taken by the director of the immigration detention center, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), does not comply with the matters instructed by the director of the immigration detention center, etc. pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, or it is otherwise inappropriate to continue the treatment, the director may discontinue the treatment and not permit the detainee to receive treatment from that designated physician thereafter.