# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六十三条 (Article 63) - 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: 第六十三条 (Article 63) — address `art-63` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-63 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-63 - 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. --- ### 第六十三条 art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-63 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、医療法人の業務若しくは会計が法令、法令に基づく都道府県知事の処分、定款若しくは寄附行為に違反している疑いがあり、又はその運営が著しく適正を欠く疑いがあると認めるときは、当該医療法人に対し、その業務若しくは会計の状況に関し報告を求め、又は当該職員に、その事務所に立ち入り、業務若しくは会計の状況を検査させることができる。 art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-63/par-1 When a prefectural governor suspects the operations or accounting of a medical corporation to be in violation of laws and regulations, a disposition by the prefectural governor based on laws and regulations, the articles of incorporation, or the act of endowment, or suspects its administration to be significantly inappropriate, the prefectural governor may request the relevant medical corporation to report on the status of its operations or accounting, or may have the relevant officials enter its offices and inspect the status of its operations or accounting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第六条の八第三項及び第四項の規定は、前項の規定による立入検査について準用する。 art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-63/par-2 The provisions set forth in Article 6-8, paragraphs (3) and (4) apply mutatis mutandis to any entry and inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-63/par-2: 第六条の八第三項 → 医療法 第六条の八第三項 (Article 6-8, paragraph (3)), art-6-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-8/par-3 - art-63/par-2: 第四項 → 医療法 第六条の八第四項 (Article 6-8, paragraph (4)), art-6-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-8/par-4 - art-63/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第六十三条第一項 (Article 63, paragraph (1)), art-63/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-63/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第六十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-63/par-2 - 医療法 第七十条の二十第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-20/par-1 - 医療法 第九十三条第一項第十三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-93/par-1/item-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-93/par-1/item-13 --- ## 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