# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六十条の三 (Article 60-3) - 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: 第六十条の三 (Article 60-3) — address `art-60-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-3 - 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. --- ### 第六十条の三 art-60-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-3 **第一項** 社団たる医療法人は、吸収分割契約について当該医療法人の総社員の同意を得なければならない。 art-60-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-3/par-1 A medical corporation as an association must obtain the consent of all members of the relevant medical corporation for an absorption-type split agreement. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 財団たる医療法人は、寄附行為に吸収分割をすることができる旨の定めがある場合に限り、吸収分割をすることができる。 art-60-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-3/par-2 A medical corporation as a foundation may conduct an absorption-type split only when its act of endowment provides that it may do so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 財団たる医療法人は、吸収分割契約について理事の三分の二以上の同意を得なければならない。ただし、寄附行為に別段の定めがある場合は、この限りでない。 art-60-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-3/par-3 A medical corporation as a foundation must obtain the consent of two-thirds or more of its directors for an absorption-type split agreement, unless otherwise provided for in its act of endowment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 吸収分割は、都道府県知事（吸収分割医療法人及び吸収分割承継医療法人の主たる事務所の所在地が二以上の都道府県の区域内に所在する場合にあつては、当該吸収分割医療法人及び吸収分割承継医療法人の主たる事務所の所在地の全ての都道府県知事）の認可を受けなければ、その効力を生じない。 art-60-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-3/par-4 An absorption-type split does not take effect unless approved by the prefectural governor (in the case where the principal offices of the medical corporation conducting the absorption-type split and the succeeding medical corporation in the absorption-type split are located within the area of two or more prefectures, the governors of all the prefectures where the principal offices of the relevant medical corporation conducting the absorption-type split and the relevant succeeding medical corporation in the absorption-type split are located). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An absorption-type split is not take effect unless approved by the prefectural governor (in the case where the principal offices of the medical corporation conducting the absorption-type split and the succeeding medical corporation in the absorption-type split are located within the area of two or more prefectures, the governors of all the prefectures where the principal offices of the relevant medical corporation conducting the absorption-type split and the relevant succeeding medical corporation in the absorption-type split are located)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **第五項** 第五十五条第七項の規定は、前項の認可について準用する。 art-60-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-3/par-5 The provisions of Article 55, paragraph (7) apply mutatis mutandis to the approval set forth in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-60-3/par-5: 第五十五条第七項 → 医療法 第五十五条第七項 (Article 55, paragraph (7)), art-55/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-55/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-55/par-7 - art-60-3/par-5: 前項 → 医療法 第六十条の三第四項 (Article 60-3, paragraph (4)), art-60-3/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-3/par-4 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第六十条の三第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-3/par-5 - 医療法 第六十条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-4/par-1 - 医療法 第六十条の四第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-60-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-60-4/par-2 - 医療法 第六十一条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-61-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-61-3/par-1 - 医療法 第六十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-62/par-1 - 医療法 第六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-67/par-1 - 医療法 第七十条の二十三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-23/par-1 --- ## 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 60-3, 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