# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二十五条 (Article 25) - 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: 第二十五条 (Article 25) — address `art-25` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条 art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25 **第一項** 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は、必要があると認めるときは、病院、診療所若しくは助産所の開設者若しくは管理者若しくはオンライン診療受診施設の設置者に対し、必要な報告を命じ、又は当該職員に、病院、診療所、助産所若しくはオンライン診療受診施設に立ち入り、その有する人員若しくは清潔保持の状況、構造設備若しくは診療録、助産録、帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-1 When a prefectural governor, the mayor of a city with a public health center, or the mayor of a special ward of Tokyo finds it necessary, the governor or mayor may order the establisher or administrator of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center, or the founder of a facility for receiving online medical care, to report as necessary, and may have the relevant officials enter the relevant hospital, clinic, birthing center or facility for receiving online medical care and inspect the personnel or the state of cleanliness, its buildings, and equipment, its medical records, birth records, books and documents, and other articles. machine translation, not official **第二項** 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ている疑いがあり、又はその運営が著しく適正を欠く疑いがあると認めるときは、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若しくは管理者若しくはオンライン診療受診施設の設置者に対し、診療録、助産録、帳簿書類その他の物件の提出を命じ、又は当該職員に、当該病院、診療所若しくは助産所の開設者若しくはオンライン診療受診施設の設置者の事務所その他当該病院、診療所、助産所若しくはオンライン診療受診施設の運営に関係のある場所に立ち入り、帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-2 When a prefectural governor, the mayor of a city with a public health center, or the mayor of a special ward of Tokyo suspects that the operation of a hospital, clinic, birthing center or facility for receiving online medical care is in violation of laws and regulations or a disposition based on laws and regulations, or suspects that the management thereof is significantly unsuitable, the governor or mayor may order the establisher or administrator of the relevant hospital, clinic, or birthing center, or the founder of the relevant facility for receiving online medical care, to submit medical records, birth records, books and documents, and other articles, or have the relevant officials enter the office of the establisher of the relevant hospital, clinic or birthing center or of the founder of the relevant facility for receiving online medical care, or other places related to the operation of the relevant hospital, clinic, birthing center or facility for receiving online medical care, and inspect books and documents, and other articles to the extent necessary for the enforcement of this Act. machine translation, not official **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、必要があると認めるときは、特定機能病院等の開設者若しくは管理者に対し、必要な報告を命じ、又は当該職員に、特定機能病院等に立ち入り、その有する人員若しくは清潔保持の状況、構造設備若しくは診療録、助産録、帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-3 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary, the minister may order the establisher or administrator of an advanced treatment hospital, etc. to report as necessary, and may have the relevant officials enter the advanced treatment hospital, etc. and inspect the personnel or the state of cleanliness, its buildings and equipment, medical records, birth records, books and documents, and other articles. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary, the minister may order the organizer or administrator of an advanced treatment hospital, etc. to report as necessary, and may have the relevant officials enter the advanced treatment hospital, etc. and inspect the personnel or the state of cleanliness, its buildings and equipment, medical records, birth records, books and documents, and other articles." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **第四項** 厚生労働大臣は、特定機能病院等の業務が法令若しくは法令に基づく処分に違反している疑いがあり、又はその運営が著しく適正を欠く疑いがあると認めるときは、当該特定機能病院等の開設者又は管理者に対し、診療録、助産録、帳簿書類その他の物件の提出を命ずることができる。 art-25/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-4 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare suspects that the operation of an advanced treatment hospital, etc. is in violation of laws and regulations or a disposition based on laws and regulations, or suspects that the management thereof is significantly unsuitable, the minister may order the establisher or administrator of the relevant advanced treatment hospital, etc. to submit medical records, birth records, books and documents, or other articles. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare suspects that the operation of an advanced treatment hospital, etc. is in violation of laws and regulations or a disposition based on laws and regulations, or suspects that the management thereof is significantly unsuitable, the minister may order the organizer or administrator of the relevant advanced treatment hospital, etc. to submit medical records, birth records, books and documents, or other articles." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **第五項** 第六条の八第三項の規定は第一項から第三項までの立入検査について、同条第四項の規定は前各項の権限について、準用する。 art-25/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-5 The provisions set forth in Article 6-8, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis pursuant to entry and inspection as set forth in paragraph (1) through paragraph (3), and the provisions set forth in paragraph (4) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis pursuant to the authority set forth in each of the preceding paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-25/par-5: 第六条の八第三項 → 医療法 第六条の八第三項 (Article 6-8, paragraph (3)), art-6-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-8/par-3 - art-25/par-5: 第一項から第三項まで → 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/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-1 - art-25/par-5: 第一項から第三項まで → 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/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-2 - art-25/par-5: 第一項から第三項まで → 医療法 第二十五条第三項 (Article 25, paragraph (3)), art-25/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-3 - art-25/par-5: 同条第四項 → 医療法 第六条の八第四項 (Article 6-8, paragraph (4)), art-6-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-8/par-4 - art-25/par-5: 前各項 → 医療法 第二十五条第四項 (Article 25, paragraph (4)), art-25/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-4 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第二十五条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-25/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-25/par-5 - 医療法 第二十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-26/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 第八十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-86/par-1 - 医療法 第八十九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-89/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-89/par-1/item-2 - 医療法 附則第七十五条第一項（厚生大臣又は都道府県知事その他の地方公共団体の機関がした事業の停止命令その他の処分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十五条第一項（厚生大臣又は都道府県知事その他の地方公共団体の機関がした事業の停止命令その他の処分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第七十五条第一項（厚生大臣又は都道府県知事その他の地方公共団体の機関がした事業の停止命令その他の処分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 --- ## 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 25, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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 25, paragraph (4) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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