# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) - 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23) — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条 art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-23 **第一項** 第二十一条から前条までに定めるもののほか、病院、診療所又は助産所の構造設備について、換気、採光、照明、防湿、保安、避難及び清潔その他衛生上遺憾のないように必要な基準は、厚生労働省令で定める。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-23/par-1 Beyond the provisions of Article 21 through the preceding Article, the necessary standards for ensuring satisfactory ventilation, lighting, illumination, damp proofing, security, emergency evacuation, cleanliness, and other sanitary conditions with regard to the buildings and equipment of a hospital, clinic or birthing center, is to be prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定に基づく厚生労働省令の規定に違反した者については、政令で二十万円以下の罰金の刑を科する旨の規定を設けることができる。 art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-23/par-2 Regulations may be established by Cabinet Order to sentence persons who have violated the provisions of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as set forth in the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a fine of up to 200,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23/par-1: 第二十一条から前条まで → 医療法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-21 - art-23/par-1: 第二十一条から前条まで → 医療法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-22 - art-23/par-1: 第二十一条から前条まで → 医療法 第二十二条の二 (Article 22-2), art-22-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-22-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-22-2 - art-23/par-1: 第二十一条から前条まで → 医療法 第二十二条の三 (Article 22-3), art-22-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-22-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-22-3 - art-23/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第二十三条第一項 (Article 23, paragraph (1)), art-23/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-23/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第七条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-4 - 医療法 第二十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-23/par-2 - 医療法 第二十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-24/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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19