When the administrator of a hospital, clinic or birthing center wishes to entrust specimen testing, the administrator must do so to the following persons:
an establisher of a sanitary laboratory registered under Article 20-3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Clinical Laboratory Technicians.; and
臨床検査技師等に関する法律第二十条の三第一項の登録を受けた衛生検査所の開設者
a person who performs specimen testing in a hospital, clinic or other places specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the buildings and equipment of the facilities where the person performs specimen testing, management organization, methods for ensuring the accuracy of specimen testing and other particulars conform to the standards specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as necessary for the proper performance of specimen testing.
Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, when the administrator of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center wishes to entrust the operation of the hospital, clinic, or birthing center that are prescribed by Cabinet Order as having a significant influence on physicians' or dentists' diagnoses, on the services of midwives, or on the hospitalization or admission of patients, pregnant women, women in labor, or women resting after childbirth, the administrator must entrust the relevant operations to a party who conforms to the requirements prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a party with the ability to properly undertake its operation, in accordance with the type of operation undertaken at the relevant hospital, clinic, or birthing center.
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