# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五十六条の三 (Article 56-3) - 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: 第五十六条の三 (Article 56-3) — address `art-56-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-3 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条の三 art-56-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-3 **第一項** 医療法人が解散したときは、合併及び破産手続開始の決定による解散の場合を除き、理事がその清算人となる。ただし、定款若しくは寄附行為に別段の定めがあるとき、又は社員総会において理事以外の者を選任したときは、この限りでない。 art-56-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-3/par-1 When a medical corporation has been dissolved, a director becomes its liquidator, except in the case of dissolution due to a decision to merge or to commence bankruptcy proceedings; provided, however, that this does not apply when it is otherwise specified in the articles of incorporation or act of endowment, or when a person other than a director is appointed at a general meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第五十六条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-4/par-1 - 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