# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六十八条 (Article 68) - 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: 第六十八条 (Article 68) — address `art-68` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-68 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-68 - 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. --- ### 第六十八条 art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-68 **第一項** 一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律第四条、第百五十八条及び第百六十四条並びに会社法第六百六十二条、第六百六十四条、第八百六十八条第一項、第八百七十一条、第八百七十四条（第一号に係る部分に限る。）、第八百七十五条及び第八百七十六条の規定は、医療法人について準用する。この場合において、同法第六百六十四条中「社員に分配する」とあるのは「残余財産の帰属すべき者又は国庫に帰属させる」と、同法第八百六十八条第一項中「本店」とあるのは「主たる事務所」と読み替えるものとする。 art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-68/par-1 The provisions set forth in Article 4, Article 158, and Article 164 of the Act on General Incorporated Associations and General Incorporated Foundations, and Article 662, Article 664, Article 868, paragraph (1), Article 871, Article 874 (limited to parts pertaining to item (i)), Article 875, and Article 876 of the Companies Act apply mutatis mutandis to medical corporations. In this case, the term "distribute its assets to its partners" in Article 664 of the Companies Act is replaced with "assign its assets to persons with vested interests in residual assets or to the national treasury", and the term "head office" in Article 868, paragraph (1) of the same Act is replaced with "principal office". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-68/par-1: 一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律第四条 → e-Gov law 418AC0000000048, 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — not held in this collection - art-68/par-1: 第百五十八条 → e-Gov law 418AC0000000048, 第百五十八条 (Article 158), art-158 — not held in this collection - art-68/par-1: 第百六十四条 → e-Gov law 418AC0000000048, 第百六十四条 (Article 164), art-164 — not held in this collection - art-68/par-1: 会社法第六百六十二条 → 会社法 第六百六十二条 (Article 662), art-662 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-662 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-662 - art-68/par-1: 第六百六十四条 → 会社法 第六百六十四条 (Article 664), art-664 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-664 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-664 - art-68/par-1: 第八百六十八条第一項 → 会社法 第八百六十八条第一項 (Article 868, paragraph (1)), art-868/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-868/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-868/par-1 - art-68/par-1: 第八百七十一条 → 会社法 第八百七十一条 (Article 871), art-871 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-871 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-871 - art-68/par-1: 第八百七十四条 → 会社法 第八百七十四条 (Article 874), art-874 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-874 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-874 - art-68/par-1: 第一号 → 会社法 第八百七十四条第一項第一号 (Article 874, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-874/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-874/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-874/par-1/item-1 - art-68/par-1: 第八百七十五条 → 会社法 第八百七十五条 (Article 875), art-875 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-875 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-875 - art-68/par-1: 第八百七十六条 → 会社法 第八百七十六条 (Article 876), art-876 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-876 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-876 --- ## 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