# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六十六条の三 (Article 66-3) - 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: 第六十六条の三 (Article 66-3) — address `art-66-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-66-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-66-3 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の三 art-66-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-66-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-66-3 **第一項** 関係都道府県知事（医療法人が開設する病院、診療所、介護老人保健施設又は介護医療院の所在地の都道府県知事であつて、当該医療法人の主たる事務所の所在地の都道府県知事以外の者をいう。）は、当該医療法人に対して適当な措置をとることが必要であると認めるときは、当該医療法人の主たる事務所の所在地の都道府県知事に対し、その旨の意見を述べることができる。 art-66-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-66-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-66-3/par-1 The prefectural governor concerned (meaning the prefectural governor of the location of a hospital, clinic, long-term care health facility or integrated facility for medical and long-term care established by a medical corporation, who is not the prefectural governor of the location of the principal office of the relevant medical corporation) may, when the prefectural governor finds it necessary, express the opinion to the prefectural governor of the location of the principal office of the relevant medical corporation that appropriate measures should be taken against the relevant medical corporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第四十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-44/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