# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27) - 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27) — address `art-27` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-27 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条 art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27 **第一項** 病院、患者を入院させるための施設を有する診療所又は入所施設を有する助産所は、その構造設備について、その所在地を管轄する都道府県知事の検査を受け、許可証の交付を受けた後でなければ、これを使用してはならない。 art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27/par-1 A hospital, clinic with in-patient facilities, or birthing center with admission facilities must not use its buildings and equipment without first undergoing inspection by the prefectural governor with jurisdiction over their location and receiving a license. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-1 - 医療法 第八十九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-89/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-89/par-1/item-1 - 医療法 附則第三条第一項（診療所の療養病床以外の病床に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4181-84/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/art-3/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