# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第四十六条の六 (Article 46-6) - 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: 第四十六条の六 (Article 46-6) — address `art-46-6` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-46-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-46-6 - 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. --- ### 第四十六条の六 art-46-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-46-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-46-6 **第一項** 医療法人（次項に規定する医療法人を除く。）の理事のうち一人は、理事長とし、医師又は歯科医師である理事のうちから選出する。ただし、都道府県知事の認可を受けた場合は、医師又は歯科医師でない理事のうちから選出することができる。 art-46-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-46-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-46-6/par-1 One of the directors of a medical corporation (excluding a medical corporation prescribed in the following paragraph) is the president, who is to be elected from among the directors who are physicians or dentists; provided, however, that in the case where approval has been obtained from the prefectural governor, the president may be elected from among the directors who are neither physicians nor dentists. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第四十六条の五第一項ただし書の認可を受けて一人の理事を置く医療法人にあつては、この章（次条第三項を除く。）の規定の適用については、当該理事を理事長とみなす。 art-46-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-46-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-46-6/par-2 In the case of a medical corporation that has one director with approval under the proviso of Article 46-5, paragraph (1), the relevant director is deemed to be the president with regard to the application of the provisions of this Chapter (excluding paragraph (3) of the following Article). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-46-6/par-1: 次項 → 医療法 第四十六条の六第二項 (Article 46-6, paragraph (2)), art-46-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-46-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-46-6/par-2 - art-46-6/par-2: 第四十六条の五第一項 → 医療法 第四十六条の五第一項 (Article 46-5, paragraph (1)), art-46-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-46-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-46-5/par-1 - art-46-6/par-2: 次条第三項 → 医療法 第四十六条の六の二第三項 (Article 46-6-2, paragraph (3)), art-46-6-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-46-6-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-46-6-2/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第四十六条の六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-46-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-46-6/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