# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六条の七の二 (Article 6-7-2)

- 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: 第六条の七の二 (Article 6-7-2) — address `art-6-7-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-7-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-7-2
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### 第六条の七の二
<sup>art-6-7-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-7-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-7-2</sup>

  **第一項**  何人も、オンライン診療受診施設に関して、文書その他いかなる方法によるを問わず、医療を受ける者による医療に関する適切な選択が阻害されるおそれが少ない場合として厚生労働省令で定める場合を除いては、広告をしてはならない。
  <sup>art-6-7-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-7-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-7-2/par-1</sup>
  No party may place any advertisement with regard to a facility for receiving online medical care, regardless of whether it is made in writing or by any other means, except in cases specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as cases where there is little risk of hindering appropriate selection of medical care by medical care recipients.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 医療法 第六条の八第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-8/par-1
- 医療法 第六条の八第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-8/par-2

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## 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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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
