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Article 60

第六十条

A medical corporation (excluding social medical corporations and those specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection) may conduct an absorption-type split (meaning that all or part of the rights and obligations which a medical corporation has with respect to its business are succeeded to by another medical corporation after the split; hereinafter the same applies in this Division). In this case, an absorption-type split agreement is concluded with the medical corporation that succeeds to all or part of the rights and obligations (hereinafter referred to as the "succeeding medical corporation in the absorption-type split" in this Division) held by the relevant medical corporation with respect to its business.

医療法人（社会医療法人その他の厚生労働省令で定める者を除く。以下この款において同じ。）は、吸収分割（医療法人がその事業に関して有する権利義務の全部又は一部を分割後他の医療法人に承継させることをいう。以下この目において同じ。）をすることができる。この場合においては、当該医療法人がその事業に関して有する権利義務の全部又は一部を当該医療法人から承継する医療法人（以下この目において「吸収分割承継医療法人」という。）との間で、吸収分割契約を締結しなければならない。

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medical corporation
医療法人（いりょうほうじん）
An association (社団) or foundation (財団) seeking to open a hospital, a clinic where doctors or dentists regularly work, a long-term care health facility (介護老人保健施設) or an integrated facility for medical and long-term care (介護医療院), that has become a legal person under this Act.
Article 39, paragraph (2)See it in the glossary
social medical corporations
社会医療法人（しゃかいいりょうほうじん）
A medical corporation that the prefectural governor, as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides, has authorized as meeting the requirements of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) — among them that relatives and others with special ties to any one officer, member or councillor make up no more than a third of the total, that it carries out activities to ensure emergency medical care (救急医療等確保事業) in the prefecture to standards the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets, and that its articles give remaining assets on dissolution to the State, a local government or another social medical corporation — and which may carry on profit-making activities (収益業務).
Article 42-2, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary
absorption-type split
吸収分割（きゅうしゅうぶんかつ）
A medical corporation's handing over all or part of the rights and obligations of its business to another existing medical corporation, which takes them over after the split.
医療法人がその事業に関して有する権利義務の全部又は一部を分割後他の医療法人に承継させること
Article 60, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary
succeeding medical corporation in the absorption-type split
吸収分割承継医療法人（きゅうしゅうぶんかつしょうけいいりょうほうじん）
The medical corporation that takes over all or part of the rights and obligations of another medical corporation's business in an absorption-type split (吸収分割), with which the splitting corporation concludes the split agreement.
Article 60, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary

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as amended by Act Partially Amending the Medical Care Act, etc. (Act No. 87 of 2025)医療法等の一部を改正する法律

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