Supplementary Provisions, Article 10-2Smooth Transition to New Medical Corporations
第十条の二（新医療法人への円滑な移行）
In order to ensure the medical care required in communities, the Government is to make efforts to promote the necessary measures so that the transition of transitional medical corporations (meaning medical corporations as associations established before the Effective Date, or medical corporations as associations that filed an application for the authorization under Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act before the Effective Date and received authorization for establishment on or after the Effective Date, whose articles of incorporation do not include provisions on the person to whom the residual assets are to belong, and those whose articles of incorporation provide as the person to whom the residual assets are to belong a person other than those prescribed in paragraph (5) of that Article; the same applies in the following Article and Article 10-4 of the Supplementary Provisions) to new medical corporations (meaning medical corporations as associations whose articles of incorporation provide as the person to whom the residual assets are to belong the persons prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (5) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter) is promoted.
政府は、地域において必要とされる医療を確保するため、経過措置医療法人（施行日前に設立された社団たる医療法人又は施行日前に医療法第四十四条第一項の規定による認可の申請をし、施行日以後に設立の認可を受けた社団たる医療法人であって、その定款に残余財産の帰属すべき者に関する規定を設けていないもの及び残余財産の帰属すべき者として同条第五項に規定する者以外の者を規定しているものをいう。次条及び附則第十条の四において同じ。）の新医療法人（社団たる医療法人であって、その定款に残余財産の帰属すべき者として同法第四十四条第五項に規定する者を規定しているものをいう。以下同じ。）への移行が促進されるよう必要な施策の推進に努めるものとする。