# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五条 (Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Article 5) — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-5 **第一項** 公衆又は特定多数人のため往診のみによつて診療に従事する医師若しくは歯科医師又は出張のみによつてその業務に従事する助産師については、第六条の四の三、第六条の五又は第六条の七、第八条第一項及び第九条の規定の適用に関し、それぞれその住所をもつて診療所又は助産所とみなす。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-5/par-1 For a physician or dentist who practices solely through house calls for the public or other specific groups of people, or a midwife who engages in services solely through house calls, each such address is to be considered a clinic or birthing center with regard to the applicability of the provisions set forth in Article 6-4-3, Article 6-5 or Article 6-7, Article 8, paragraph (1) and Article 9. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県知事、地域保健法（昭和二十二年法律第百一号）第五条第一項の規定に基づく政令で定める市（以下「保健所を設置する市」という。）の市長又は特別区の区長は、必要があると認めるときは、前項に規定する医師、歯科医師又は助産師に対し、必要な報告を命じ、又は検査のため診療録、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-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-5/par-2 A prefectural governor, a mayor of a city as prescribed by the Cabinet Order as set forth in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Community Health Act (Act No. 101 of 1947) (hereinafter referred to as a "city with a public health center"), or a mayor of a special ward of Tokyo may, when they find it necessary, order a physician, dentist, or midwife as provided for in the preceding paragraph to report as required, or may order the submission of medical records, birth records, accounting books and documents, and other articles for inspection. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-5/par-1: 第六条の四の三 → 医療法 第六条の四の三 (Article 6-4-3), art-6-4-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-4-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-4-3 - art-5/par-1: 第六条の五 → 医療法 第六条の五 (Article 6-5), art-6-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-5 - art-5/par-1: 第六条の七 → 医療法 第六条の七 (Article 6-7), art-6-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-7 - art-5/par-1: 第八条第一項 → 医療法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-8/par-1 - art-5/par-1: 第九条 → 医療法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-9 - art-5/par-2: 地域保健法（昭和二十二年法律第百一号）第五条第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000101, 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-5/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-5/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-5/par-2 - 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 - 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T144711-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19