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Article 104第百四条
Rescission of Approval(許可の取消し等)
Article 104, paragraph (1)
A prefectural governor, in a case that corresponds to any of the following items, may rescind the approval as set forth in Article 94, paragraph (1) pertaining to said Long-Term Care Health Facility or suspend the whole or a part of the effect of said appointment as service provider within the period limited by a due date:
when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility does not commence said operation for six months or more after obtaining approval as set forth in Article 94, paragraph (1) without a reasonable basis;
when a Long-Term Care Health Facility has come to correspond to any of Article 94, paragraph (3), items (iv) through (v)-2, item (x) (excluding when it is one that has a person who corresponds to item (v)-3), or item (xi) (excluding when it is one that has a person who corresponds to item (v)-3);
when it is determined that an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility violates an obligation as prescribed in Article 97, paragraph (11);
介護老人保健施設の開設者が、第九十七条第十一項に規定する義務に違反したと認められるとき。
Article 104, paragraph (1), item (iv)
when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility committed a crime or act of dishonesty concerning medical business;
介護老人保健施設の開設者に犯罪又は医事に関する不正行為があったとき。
Article 104, paragraph (1), item (v)
when a Long-Term Care Health Facility is entrusted with an investigation pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (5) and submits a false report regarding the result of said investigation;
when an Allowance for Long-term care Facility Service is wrongly requested;
施設介護サービス費の請求に関し不正があったとき。
Article 104, paragraph (1), item (vii)
when an Establisher, etc., of a Long-Term Care Health Facility is ordered to report, submit or present medical records or record books and documents pursuant to the provisions of Article 100, paragraph (1), but disobeys said order or submits a false report;
when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, etc. is requested to appear pursuant to the provisions of Article 100, paragraph (1) but does not respond or does not reply to questions pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph or submits a false reply, or refuses, interrupts, or interferes with an inspection pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, however, provided that this provision does not apply when an employee of a Long-Term Care Health Facility performed said act and the Establisher or manager of said Long-Term Care Health Facility was faithfully providing reasonable care and supervision in order to prevent said act;
in addition to the cases listed in the preceding items, when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility violates this Act, another Act concerning citizens' health and medical care and public aid as provided by a Cabinet Order, or an Order or disposition of a matter based on these Acts;
in addition to the cases listed in the preceding items, when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility performs a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act concerning In-Home Service, etc.;
in a case when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility is a juridical person, when any of said Officer, etc., or said Manager of a Long-Term Care Health Facility performs a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act concerning In-Home Service, etc., within five years and the appointment as service provider is rescinded or the whole or a part of the effect of the appointment as service provider is suspended due to said act;
in a case when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility is not a juridical person among those provided by the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare as set forth in Article 94, paragraph (3), item (i), a manager of said Provider performs a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act concerning In-Home Service, etc., within five years and the appointment as service provider is rescinded or the whole or a part of the effect of the appointment as service provider is suspended due to said act.
With regard to a Long-Term Care Health Facility that conducts an entrusted investigation or provided Long-Term Care Health Facility Service pertaining to an Insurance Benefit pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (5), a Municipality, when it determines said Long-Term Care Health Facility corresponds to any provision of the items in the preceding paragraph, must provide notification of said fact to the prefectural governor that governs the location of said Long-Term Care Health Facility.
The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare, with regard to the affair that belongs to the authority of the prefectural governor as prescribed in paragraph (1), when it determines the urgent necessity to secure life and the physical safety of a person that may be admitted to the Long-Term Care Health Facility, may order the prefectural governor to conduct the affairs as set forth in the same paragraph.
A prefectural governor must, in the following cases, provide public notice of the name or full name of the Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, the location of said Long-Term Care Health Facility, and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
when approval has been granted under Article 94, paragraph (1);
第九十四条第一項の許可をしたとき。
Article 104-2, paragraph (1), item (ii)
when a notification of abolition pursuant to the provisions of Article 99, paragraph (2) has been submitted;
第九十九条第二項の規定による廃止の届出があったとき。
Article 104-2, paragraph (1), item (iii)
when the approval set forth in Article 94, paragraph (1) has been rescinded, or the whole or a part of the effect of the approval has been suspended, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or Article 115-35, paragraph (6).
Mutatis Mutandis Application of the Medical Care Act(医療法の準用)
Article 105, paragraph (1)
The provisions of Article 9, paragraph (2) of the Medical Care Act (Act No. 205 of 1948) apply mutatis mutandis to an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, the provisions of Article 14-4 and Article 15, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the same Act apply mutatis mutandis to a manager of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, and the provisions of Article 30 of the same Act apply mutatis mutandis to dispositions pursuant to the provisions of Article 101, Article 102, paragraph (1), Article 103, paragraph (3) and Article 104, paragraph (1). In this case, necessary technical replacement of the terms of these provisions is specified by a Cabinet Order.
A Long-Term Care Health Facility is not a hospital or a clinic as used in the Medical Care Act; provided, however, that the terms "hospital" and "clinic" in provisions of laws and regulations other than the same Act and orders based on it (excluding the provisions of the Health Insurance Act, the National Health Insurance Act and other laws and regulations that are specified by Cabinet Order) include a Long-Term Care Health Facility (excluding, in the provisions of laws and regulations specified by Cabinet Order, those specified by Cabinet Order).