# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第一条の五 (Article 1-5) - 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: 第一条の五 (Article 1-5) — address `art-1-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-1-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-5 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs 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. --- ### 第一条の五 art-1-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-1-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-5 **第一項** この法律において、「病院」とは、医師又は歯科医師が、公衆又は特定多数人のため医業又は歯科医業を行う場所であつて、二十人以上の患者を入院させるための施設を有するものをいう。病院は、傷病者が、科学的でかつ適正な診療を受けることができる便宜を与えることを主たる目的として組織され、かつ、運営されるものでなければならない。 art-1-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-1-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-5/par-1 The term "hospital" as used in this Act means a facility for the hospitalization of not less than 20 patients, where physicians or dentists carry out medical practices or dental practices for the public or other specific groups of people. A hospital must be organized and operated primarily for offering facilities that enable the scientific and proper treatment of the sick and injured. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** この法律において、「診療所」とは、医師又は歯科医師が、公衆又は特定多数人のため医業又は歯科医業を行う場所であつて、患者を入院させるための施設を有しないもの（オンライン診療受診施設であるものを除く。）又は十九人以下の患者を入院させるための施設を有するものをいう。 art-1-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-1-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-5/par-2 The term "clinic" as used in this Act means a facility with no in-patient capacity (excluding a facility for receiving online medical care), or a facility for the hospitalization of 19 patients or less, where physicians or dentists carry out medical practices or dental practices for the public or other specific groups of people. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十八条第二項第一号（適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-58/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-58/par-2/item-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第六十九条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3229-23/art-69-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3229-23/art-69-2/par-1 - 医療法 附則第四条第一項（労働時間短縮計画の作成に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5031-49/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5031-49/art-4/par-1 - 医療法 附則第二条第一項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-87/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-87/art-2/par-1 - 租税特別措置法 第八十一条の二第一項（診療所の用に供する建物を建築した場合の所有権の保存登記等の税率の軽減） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-81-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-81-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T144711-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19