Supplementary Provisions, Article 121
第百二十一条
A hospital or clinic seeking to obtain the confirmation under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article must pay a fee in an amount specified by Cabinet Order in consideration of actual costs.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may entrust all or part of the administrative work pertaining to the confirmation under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a person specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
厚生労働大臣は、前条第一項の確認に係る事務の全部又は一部を、厚生労働省令で定める者に委託することができる。
A person entrusted pursuant to the preceding paragraph, an officer or employee of that person, or a person who has been any of these, must not disclose, without justifiable grounds, any secret learned in relation to the work pertaining to the entrustment.
前項の規定による委託を受けた者若しくはその役員若しくは職員又はこれらの者であつた者は、正当な理由がなく、当該委託に係る事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。