# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六十五条 (Article 65) - 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: 第六十五条 (Article 65) — address `art-65` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-65 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-65 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条 art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-65 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、医療法人が、成立した後又は全ての病院、診療所、介護老人保健施設及び介護医療院を休止若しくは廃止した後一年以内に正当な理由がなく病院、診療所、介護老人保健施設又は介護医療院を開設しないとき、又は再開しないときは、設立の認可を取り消すことができる。 art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-65/par-1 A prefectural governor, when a medical corporation fails to establish or re-open a hospital, clinic, long-term care health facility, or integrated facility for medical and long-term care without justifiable grounds, within one year of the establishment of the relevant medical corporation or within one year of the suspension or abolition of all of its hospitals, clinics, long-term care health facilities, and integrated facilities for medical and long-term care, may rescind its authorization for establishment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第六十六条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-66-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-66-2/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 - 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