# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第三十条の十一 (Article 30-11) - 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: 第三十条の十一 (Article 30-11) — address `art-30-11` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-11 - 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. --- ### 第三十条の十一 art-30-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-11 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、医療計画の達成の推進のため特に必要がある場合には、病院若しくは診療所を開設しようとする者又は病院若しくは診療所の開設者若しくは管理者に対し、都道府県医療審議会の意見を聴いて、病院の開設若しくは病院の病床数の増加若しくは病床の種別の変更又は診療所の病床の設置若しくは診療所の病床数の増加に関して勧告することができる。 art-30-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-11/par-1 The prefectural governor, where it is specifically necessary in order to promote the fulfillment of the medical care plan, may hear the opinions of the Prefectural Council on Medical Service Facilities, and recommend that a person who wishes to establish a hospital or clinic, or an establisher or administrator of a hospital or clinic, establish a hospital, increase a hospital's number of beds, or change its bed classifications, or recommend that such a person establish beds in a clinic or increase the number of beds in a clinic. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The prefectural governor, where it is specifically necessary in order to promote the fulfillment of the medical care plan, may hear the opinions of the Prefectural Council on Medical Service Facilities, and recommend that a person who wishes to establish a hospital or clinic, or an organizer or administrator of a hospital or clinic, establish a hospital, increase a hospital's number of beds, or change its bed classifications, or recommend that such a person establish beds in a clinic or increase the number of beds in a clinic." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **第二項** 都道府県知事は、前項の規定による勧告を受けた病院若しくは診療所を開設しようとする者又は病院若しくは診療所の開設者若しくは管理者がこれに従わなかつたときは、その旨を厚生労働大臣に通知するものとする。 art-30-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-11/par-2 When a person who wishes to establish a hospital or clinic, or the establisher or administrator of a hospital or clinic, who has received a recommendation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph does not comply with it, the prefectural governor is to notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-30-11/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第三十条の十一第一項 (Article 30-11, paragraph (1)), art-30-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-11/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第六十五条第四項第二号（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-65/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-65/par-4/item-2 - 健康保険法 第六十五条第四項第三号（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-65/par-4/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-65/par-4/item-3 - 医療法 第三十条の十一第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-11/par-2 --- ## 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 30-11, paragraph (1) — 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-20261019T151250-003, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19