# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第七十条の二十 (Article 70-20) - 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: 第七十条の二十 (Article 70-20) — address `art-70-20` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-20 - 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. --- ### 第七十条の二十 art-70-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-20 **第一項** 第六条の八第三項及び第四項、第六十三条第一項並びに第六十四条の規定は、地域医療連携推進法人について準用する。この場合において、第六条の八第三項及び第四項中「第一項」とあるのは「第七十条の二十において読み替えて準用する第六十三条第一項」と、第六十三条第一項中「都道府県知事は」とあるのは「認定都道府県知事（第七十条の八第三項に規定する認定都道府県知事をいう。以下この項及び次条において同じ。）は」と、「都道府県知事の」とあるのは「認定都道府県知事の」と、第六十四条中「都道府県知事」とあるのは「認定都道府県知事」と読み替えるものとする。 art-70-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-20/par-1 The provisions of Article 6-8, paragraphs (3) and (4), Article 63, paragraph (1) and Article 64 apply mutatis mutandis to a regional medical coordination promotion corporation. In this case, the term "paragraph (1)" in Article 6-8, paragraphs (3) and (4) is replaced with "Article 63, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to Article 70-20", the term "prefectural governor" in Article 63, paragraph (1) is replaced with "prefectural governor having granted approval (meaning the prefectural governor having granted approval prescribed in Article 70-8, paragraph (3); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and the following Article) ", the term "by the prefectural governor" is replaced with "by the prefectural governor having granted approval", and the term "prefectural governor" in Article 64 is replaced with "prefectural governor having granted approval". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-70-20/par-1: 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-70-20/par-1: 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-70-20/par-1: 第六十三条第一項 → 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 - art-70-20/par-1: 第六十四条 → 医療法 第六十四条 (Article 64), art-64 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-64 - art-70-20/par-1: 第一項 → 医療法 第六条の八第一項 (Article 6-8, paragraph (1)), art-6-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-8/par-1 - art-70-20/par-1: 第七十条の二十 → 医療法 第七十条の二十 (Article 70-20), art-70-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-20 - art-70-20/par-1: 第七十条の八第三項 → 医療法 第七十条の八第三項 (Article 70-8, paragraph (3)), art-70-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-70-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-8/par-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 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 - 医療法 第九十三条第一項第十四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-93/par-1/item-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-93/par-1/item-14 --- ## 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