# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五十六条の八 (Article 56-8) - 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: 第五十六条の八 (Article 56-8) — address `art-56-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-8 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条の八 art-56-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-8 **第一項** 清算人は、その就職の日から二月以内に、少なくとも三回の公告をもつて、債権者に対し、一定の期間内にその債権の申出をすべき旨の催告をしなければならない。この場合において、その期間は、二月を下ることができない。 art-56-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-8/par-1 A liquidator is to provide public notice on at least three occasions, requiring obligees to submit their claims within a stated period, within two months of the date that the relevant liquidator takes office. In this case, the period for filing claims must not be less than two months. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の公告には、債権者がその期間内に申出をしないときは清算から除斥されるべき旨を付記しなければならない。ただし、清算人は、判明している債権者を除斥することができない。 art-56-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-8/par-2 The public notice set forth in the preceding paragraph must note that if an obligee fails to submit their claim within the stated period, their claim will be excluded from the liquidation proceedings; provided, however, that the liquidator may not exclude any known obligee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 清算人は、判明している債権者には、各別にその申出の催告をしなければならない。 art-56-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-8/par-3 The liquidator must notify each known obligee separately of the requirement for them to submit their claim. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の公告は、官報に掲載してする。 art-56-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-8/par-4 The public notice set forth in paragraph (1) is to be carried out via publication in the Official Gazette. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The public notice set forth in paragraph (1) is be carried out via publication in the Official Gazette." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb --- ## Cites - art-56-8/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第五十六条の八第一項 (Article 56-8, paragraph (1)), art-56-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-8/par-1 - art-56-8/par-4: 第一項 → 医療法 第五十六条の八第一項 (Article 56-8, paragraph (1)), art-56-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-8/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第五十六条の八第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-8/par-2 - 医療法 第五十六条の八第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-8/par-4 - 医療法 第五十六条の九第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-56-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-9/par-1 - 医療法 第九十三条第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-93/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-93/par-1/item-10 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act (医療法), Article 56-8, paragraph (4) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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