# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五十四条の二 (Article 54-2) - 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: 第五十四条の二 (Article 54-2) — address `art-54-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-2 - 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. --- ### 第五十四条の二 art-54-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-2 **第一項** 社会医療法人は、救急医療等確保事業の実施に資するため、社員総会において議決された額又は寄附行為の定めるところにより評議員会において議決された額を限度として、社会医療法人債（第五十四条の七において準用する会社法（平成十七年法律第八十六号）の規定により社会医療法人が行う割当てにより発生する当該社会医療法人を債務者とする金銭債権であつて、次条第一項各号に掲げる事項についての定めに従い償還されるものをいう。以下同じ。）を発行することができる。 art-54-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-2/par-1 A social medical corporation may issue social medical corporation bonds (monetary claims against a social medical corporation that arise as a result of allotments carried out pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-7, and which are redeemed in accordance with the provisions on the particulars listed in each item of paragraph (1) of the following Article; the same apply hereinafter) in an amount not exceeding the limit decided at a general meeting or by the board of councillors pursuant to the provisions of the act of endowment, in order to contribute to the implementation of activities to ensure emergency medical care. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の社会医療法人債を発行したときは、社会医療法人は、当該社会医療法人債の発行収入金に相当する金額を第四十二条の二第三項に規定する特別の会計に繰り入れてはならない。 art-54-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-2/par-2 When a social medical corporation has issued social medical corporation bonds pursuant to the preceding paragraph, it must not transfer funds equivalent to the proceeds from the issuance of the relevant social medical corporation bonds to a special account as provided for in Article 42-2, paragraph (3). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-54-2/par-1: 第五十四条の七 → 医療法 第五十四条の七 (Article 54-7), art-54-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-7 - art-54-2/par-1: 次条第一項 → 医療法 第五十四条の三第一項 (Article 54-3, paragraph (1)), art-54-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-3/par-1 - art-54-2/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第五十四条の二第一項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (1)), art-54-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-2/par-1 - art-54-2/par-2: 第四十二条の二第三項 → 医療法 第四十二条の二第三項 (Article 42-2, paragraph (3)), art-42-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-42-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-42-2/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第五十四条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-2/par-2 - 破産法 第百五十条第六項第二号（社債管理者等の費用及び報酬） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-150/par-6/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-150/par-6/item-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