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Article 160Falsifying Medical Certificates

第百六十条(虚偽診断書等作成)

When a physician makes a false entry in a medical certificate, an autopsy report or a death certificate to be submitted to a public office, or makes a false record in an electronic or magnetic record of a document or drawing to be submitted to a public office that is used as the whole or a part of a medical certificate, an autopsy report or a death certificate, imprisonment for 3 years or less or a fine of 300,000 yen or less is imposed.

医師が、公務所に提出すべき診断書、検案書若しくは死亡証書に虚偽の記載をし、又は公務所に提出すべき電磁的記録文書等であって、診断書、検案書若しくは死亡証書の全部若しくは一部として用いられるものに虚偽の記録をしたときは、三年以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金に処する。

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