# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第七十八条 (Article 78) - 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: 第七十八条 (Article 78) — address `art-78` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-78 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-78 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条 art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-78 **第一項** 社会医療法人の代表社会医療法人債権者（第五十四条の七において準用する会社法第七百三十六条第一項の規定により選任された代表社会医療法人債権者をいう。第八十一条第一項及び第九十一条において同じ。）又は決議執行者（第五十四条の七において準用する同法第七百三十七条第二項に規定する決議執行者をいう。第八十一条第一項及び第九十一条において同じ。）が、自己若しくは第三者の利益を図り又は社会医療法人債権者に損害を加える目的で、その任務に背く行為をし、社会医療法人債権者に財産上の損害を加えたときは、五年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-78/par-1 When a social medical corporation's representative bondholder (meaning a social medical corporation's representative bondholder appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article 736, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-7; the same applies in Article 81, paragraph (1) and Article 91) or resolution administrator (meaning a resolution administrator pursuant to the provisions of Article 737, paragraph (2) of the same Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-7; the same applies in Article 81, paragraph (1) and Article 91) has acted in a manner that is contrary to their duties for the purpose of promoting their own interest or the interest of a third party, or with the object of inflicting damage on the social medical corporation bondholders, and has inflicted financial damage on the relevant social medical corporation bondholders, the relevant person is punished by imprisonment for up to five years, a fine of up to five million yen, or both. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-78/par-1: 第五十四条の七 → 医療法 第五十四条の七 (Article 54-7), art-54-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-7 - art-78/par-1: 会社法第七百三十六条第一項 → 会社法 第七百三十六条第一項 (Article 736, paragraph (1)), art-736/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-736/par-1 - art-78/par-1: 第八十一条第一項 → 医療法 第八十一条第一項 (Article 81, paragraph (1)), art-81/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-81/par-1 - art-78/par-1: 第九十一条 → 医療法 第九十一条 (Article 91), art-91 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-91 - art-78/par-1: 同法第七百三十七条第二項 → 会社法 第七百三十七条第二項 (Article 737, paragraph (2)), art-737/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-737/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-737/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第七十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-79/par-1 - 医療法 第八十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-84/par-1 - 医療法 第八十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-85/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-010, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19