# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十五条の三 (Article 15-3) - 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: 第十五条の三 (Article 15-3) — address `art-15-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十五条の三 art-15-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-3 **第一項** 病院、診療所又は助産所の管理者は、検体検査の業務を委託しようとするときは、次に掲げる者に委託しなければならない。 art-15-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-3/par-1 When the administrator of a hospital, clinic or birthing center wishes to entrust specimen testing, the administrator must do so to the following persons: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 臨床検査技師等に関する法律第二十条の三第一項の登録を受けた衛生検査所の開設者 art-15-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-3/par-1/item-1 an establisher of a sanitary laboratory registered under Article 20-3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Clinical Laboratory Technicians.; and Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "an organizer of a sanitary laboratory registered under Article 20-3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Clinical Laboratory Technicians.; and" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **二** 病院又は診療所その他厚生労働省令で定める場所において検体検査の業務を行う者であつて、その者が検体検査の業務を行う施設の構造設備、管理組織、検体検査の精度の確保の方法その他の事項が検体検査の業務の適正な実施に必要なものとして厚生労働省令で定める基準に適合するもの art-15-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-3/par-1/item-2 a person who performs specimen testing in a hospital, clinic or other places specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the buildings and equipment of the facilities where the person performs specimen testing, management organization, methods for ensuring the accuracy of specimen testing and other particulars conform to the standards specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as necessary for the proper performance of specimen testing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 病院、診療所又は助産所の管理者は、前項に定めるもののほか、病院、診療所又は助産所の業務のうち、医師若しくは歯科医師の診療若しくは助産師の業務又は患者、妊婦、産婦若しくはじよく婦の入院若しくは入所に著しい影響を与えるものとして政令で定めるものを委託しようとするときは、当該病院、診療所又は助産所の業務の種類に応じ、当該業務を適正に行う能力のある者として厚生労働省令で定める基準に適合するものに委託しなければならない。 art-15-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-3/par-2 Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, when the administrator of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center wishes to entrust the operation of the hospital, clinic, or birthing center that are prescribed by Cabinet Order as having a significant influence on physicians' or dentists' diagnoses, on the services of midwives, or on the hospitalization or admission of patients, pregnant women, women in labor, or women resting after childbirth, the administrator must entrust the relevant operations to a party who conforms to the requirements prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a party with the ability to properly undertake its operation, in accordance with the type of operation undertaken at the relevant hospital, clinic, or birthing center. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15-3/par-1/item-1: 臨床検査技師等に関する法律第二十条の三第一項 → e-Gov law 333AC1000000076, 第二十条の三第一項 (Article 20-3, paragraph (1)), art-20-3/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-15-3/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第十五条の三第一項 (Article 15-3, paragraph (1)), art-15-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-3/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第十五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-2/par-1 - 医療法 第十五条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-3/par-2 - 医療法 第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-17/par-1 - 医療法 附則第六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act (医療法), Article 15-3, paragraph (1), item (i) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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