# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第七十三条 (Article 73) - 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: 第七十三条 (Article 73) — address `art-73` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-73 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-73 - 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. --- ### 第七十三条 art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-73 **第一項** この法律中都道府県が処理することとされている事務で政令で定めるものは、地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市（以下この条において「指定都市」という。）においては、政令の定めるところにより、指定都市が処理するものとする。この場合においては、この法律中都道府県に関する規定は、指定都市に関する規定として、指定都市に適用があるものとする。 art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-73/par-1 Designated cities set forth in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (hereinafter referred to as "designated cities" in this Article), pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, are to handle affairs specified by a Cabinet Order to be handled by prefectures in this Act. In this case, provisions set forth in this Act concerning prefectures apply mutatis mutandis to designated cities as provisions concerning designated cities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-73/par-1: 地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-73/par-1: この条 → 医療法 第七十三条 (Article 73), art-73 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-73 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第七十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-73/par-1 - 医療法 附則第七十四条第一項（厚生大臣に対する再審査請求に係る経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4111-87/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4111-87/art-74/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