# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二十六条 (Article 26) - 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26) — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-26 - 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. --- ### 第二十六条 art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-26 **第一項** 第二十五条第一項及び第三項に規定する当該職員の職権を行わせるため、厚生労働大臣、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、厚生労働省、都道府県、保健所を設置する市又は特別区の職員のうちから、医療監視員を命ずるものとする。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-26/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, prefectural governors, mayors of cities with public health centers, and mayors of special wards of Tokyo are to appoint medical care inspectors from among the officials of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, prefecture, city with the public health center, or special ward of Tokyo, to be entrusted with the authority of the relevant officials provided for in Article 25, paragraphs (1) and (3). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に定めるもののほか、医療監視員に関し必要な事項は、厚生労働省令でこれを定める。 art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-26/par-2 Beyond the provisions of the preceding paragraph, necessary particulars concerning medical care inspectors are to be as prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-26/par-1: 第二十五条第一項 → 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-26/par-1: 第三項 → 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-26/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第二十六条第一項 (Article 26, paragraph (1)), art-26/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-26/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第二十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-26/par-2 --- ## 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