# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二十四条の二 (Article 24-2) - 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: 第二十四条の二 (Article 24-2) — address `art-24-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-24-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-24-2 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条の二 art-24-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-24-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-24-2 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、病院、診療所、助産所若しくはオンライン診療受診施設の業務が法令若しくは法令に基づく処分に違反し、又はその運営が著しく適正を欠くと認めるとき（第二十三条の二又は前条第一項に規定する場合を除く。）は、この法律の施行に必要な限度において、当該病院、診療所若しくは助産所の開設者又はオンライン診療受診施設の設置者に対し、期限を定めて、必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-24-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-24-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-24-2/par-1 When a prefectural governor finds that the business of a hospital, clinic, birthing center or facility for receiving online medical care violates laws and regulations or dispositions under laws and regulations, or that the operation thereof is extremely inappropriate (excluding the cases prescribed in Article 23-2 or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article), the governor may, to the extent necessary for the enforcement of this Act, order the establisher of the relevant hospital, clinic or birthing center or the founder of the relevant facility for receiving online medical care to take necessary measures by a set deadline. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の開設者又は設置者が同項の規定による命令に従わないときは、都道府県知事は、当該開設者又は設置者に対し、期間を定めて、その開設し、又は設置する病院、診療所若しくは助産所又はオンライン診療受診施設の業務の全部又は一部の停止を命ずることができる。 art-24-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-24-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-24-2/par-2 In the event that the establisher or founder set forth in the preceding paragraph does not comply with the order as prescribed in the same paragraph, the prefectural governor may order the relevant establisher or founder to suspend all or part of the business of the hospital, clinic, birthing center or facility for receiving online medical care that they establish, for a specified period of time. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-24-2/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/art-23-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-23-2 - art-24-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 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/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-24/par-1 - art-24-2/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第二十四条の二第一項 (Article 24-2, paragraph (1)), art-24-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-24-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-24-2/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第八条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-8-2/par-2 - 医療法 第二十四条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-24-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-24-2/par-2 - 医療法 第二十九条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-29/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29/par-1/item-4 - 医療法 第三十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30/par-1 - 医療法 第七十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-74/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百二十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-127/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-20261019T151250-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19