# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第七十条の十九 (Article 70-19) - 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: 第七十条の十九 (Article 70-19) — address `art-70-19` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-19 - 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. --- ### 第七十条の十九 art-70-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-19 **第一項** 代表理事の選定及び解職は、認定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。ただし、代表理事を再任する場合については、この限りでない。 art-70-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-19/par-1 The selection and dismissal of a representative director does not take effect without the approval of the prefectural governor having granted approval. However, this does not apply in the case of reappointing a representative director. machine translation, not official **第二項** 認定都道府県知事は、前項本文の認可をし、又は認可をしない処分をするに当たつては、あらかじめ、都道府県医療審議会の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-70-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-19/par-2 The prefectural governor having granted approval, when giving the approval set forth in the main clause of the preceding paragraph or making a disposition not to give the approval, must hear the opinions of the Prefectural Council on Medical Service Facilities in advance. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-70-19/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第七十条の十九第一項 (Article 70-19, paragraph (1)), art-70-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-19/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第七十条の十九第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-19/par-2 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-009, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19