# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56) — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条 art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56 **第一項** 解散した医療法人の残余財産は、合併及び破産手続開始の決定による解散の場合を除くほか、定款又は寄附行為の定めるところにより、その帰属すべき者に帰属する。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56/par-1 The residual assets of a dissolved medical corporation are to belong to persons to whom it should belong pursuant to the provisions of the articles of incorporation or act of endowment, except in the case of dissolution due to a decision to merge or to commence bankruptcy proceedings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により処分されない財産は、国庫に帰属する。 art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56/par-2 Assets not disposed of pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to belong to the national treasury. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-56/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第五十五条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-55/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-55/par-1/item-4 - 医療法 第五十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56/par-2 - 医療法 第七十条の十五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-15/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