# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第八章 (Chapter 8) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第八章 (Chapter 8) — address `ch-8` - Text: the text as amended with effect from 2027-12-11 (On a day set by Cabinet Order, no later than 11 December 2027 — the amending law allows up to two years from promulgation. The exact day is not fixed yet.), standing until 2028-03-31 — NOT yet in force (revision 20271211_507AC0000000087) - URL (this text's page, at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8 - The same address in the text in force (its wording there may differ): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/ch-8 - Every provision below carries its address and its place on this text's page on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. The Ministry's English is given only where this text's Japanese is a wording the Ministry translated — the same as the text in force, or for a text not yet in force, a wording it translated ahead; every other paragraph's English is machine translation. --- ## 第八章　雑則 — Chapter VIII Miscellaneous Provisions heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ch-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8 ### 第七十二条 art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-72 **第一項** この法律の規定によりその権限に属させられた事項を調査審議するほか、都道府県知事の諮問に応じ、当該都道府県における医療を提供する体制の確保に関する重要事項を調査審議するため、都道府県に、都道府県医療審議会を置く。 art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-72/par-1 A prefectural council on medical service facilities is established in the prefectures in order to carry out investigations and deliberations on particulars placed under their jurisdiction by this Act, and in order to carry out investigations and deliberations on significant particulars related to ensuring the system for providing medical care in the relevant prefecture in response to consultations with the prefectural governor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 都道府県医療審議会の組織及び運営に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。 art-72/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-72/par-2 Any necessary particulars concerning the organization and operation of a prefectural council on medical service facilities is stipulated by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ### 第七十三条 art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-73 **第一項** この法律中都道府県が処理することとされている事務で政令で定めるものは、地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市（以下この条において「指定都市」という。）においては、政令の定めるところにより、指定都市が処理するものとする。この場合においては、この法律中都道府県に関する規定は、指定都市に関する規定として、指定都市に適用があるものとする。 art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-73/par-1 Designated cities set forth in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (hereinafter referred to as "designated cities" in this Article), pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, are to handle affairs specified by a Cabinet Order to be handled by prefectures in this Act. In this case, provisions set forth in this Act concerning prefectures apply mutatis mutandis to designated cities as provisions concerning designated cities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ### 第七十四条 art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-74 **第一項** 第五条第二項、第二十三条の二、第二十四条第一項、第二十四条の二並びに第二十五条第一項及び第二項の規定により都道府県知事、保健所を設置する市の市長又は特別区の区長の権限に属するものとされている事務は、国民の健康を守るため緊急の必要があると厚生労働大臣が認める場合にあつては、厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事、保健所を設置する市の市長若しくは特別区の区長が行うものとする。この場合においては、この法律の規定中都道府県知事、保健所を設置する市の市長又は特別区の区長に関する規定（当該事務に係るものに限る。）は、厚生労働大臣に関する規定として厚生労働大臣に適用があるものとする。 art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-74/par-1 Affairs placed under the jurisdiction of a prefectural governor, mayor of a city with a public health center, or mayor of a special ward of Tokyo pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (2), Article 23-2, Article 24, paragraph (1), Article 24-2, and Article 25, paragraphs (1) and (2), where the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds there to be an urgent necessity therefor in order to protect the health of the citizens, this is to be undertaken by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, prefectural governor, mayor of a city with a public health center, or mayor of a special ward of Tokyo. In this case, provisions set forth in this Act concerning a prefectural governor, mayor of a city with a public health center, or mayor of a special ward of Tokyo (limited to those pertaining to the relevant affairs) apply mutatis mutandis to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as provisions concerning the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事、保健所を設置する市の市長若しくは特別区の区長が当該事務を行うときは、相互に密接な連携の下に行うものとする。 art-74/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-74/par-2 In the case set forth in the preceding paragraph, when the relevant affairs are undertaken by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, a prefectural governor, mayor of a city with a public health center, or mayor of a special ward of Tokyo, they are to be undertaken under close mutual cooperation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ### 第七十五条 art-75 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-75 **第一項** この法律に規定する厚生労働大臣の権限は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、地方厚生局長に委任することができる。 art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-75/par-1 The authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of this Act may be delegated to the Director-General of a Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare, pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により地方厚生局長に委任された権限は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、地方厚生支局長に委任することができる。 art-75/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-75/par-2 The authority delegated to the Director-General of a regional bureau of health and welfare pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be delegated to the Director-General of a regional branch bureau of health and welfare pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ### 第七十六条 art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-76 **第一項** この法律の規定に基づき命令を制定し、又は改廃する場合においては、その命令で、その制定又は改廃に伴い合理的に必要と判断される範囲内において、所要の経過措置（罰則に関する経過措置を含む。）を定めることができる。 art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-76/par-1 Where an order has been established, revised, or abolished based on the provisions of this Act, the relevant order may specify any necessary transitional measures (including transitional measures related to penal provisions) within the scope reasonably necessary in accordance with the relevant establishment, revision, or abolition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-73/par-1: 地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-73/par-1: この条 → 医療法 第七十三条 (Article 73), art-73 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-73 - art-74/par-1: 第五条第二項 → 医療法 第五条第二項 (Article 5, paragraph (2)), art-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-1/from-art-4#art-5/par-2 - art-74/par-1: 第二十三条の二 → 医療法 第二十三条の二 (Article 23-2), art-23-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-4/from-art-19#art-23-2 - art-74/par-1: 第二十四条第一項 → 医療法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-4/from-art-19#art-24/par-1 - art-74/par-1: 第二十四条の二 → 医療法 第二十四条の二 (Article 24-2), art-24-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-4/from-art-19#art-24-2 - art-74/par-1: 第二十五条第一項 → 医療法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-4/from-art-25#art-25/par-1 - art-74/par-1: 第二項 → 医療法 第二十五条第二項 (Article 25, paragraph (2)), art-25/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-4/from-art-25#art-25/par-2 - art-74/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第七十四条第一項 (Article 74, paragraph (1)), art-74/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-74/par-1 - art-75/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第七十五条第一項 (Article 75, paragraph (1)), art-75/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/amendments/20271211_507AC0000000087/text/ch-8#art-75/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text as 令和七年法律第八十七号 leaves it, from a date not yet fixed (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20271211_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19