# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第八条の二 (Article 8-2) - 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: 第八条の二 (Article 8-2) — address `art-8-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-8-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-8-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八条の二 art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-8-2 **第一項** 病院、診療所若しくは助産所の開設者又はオンライン診療受診施設の設置者は、正当の理由がないのに、その病院、診療所、助産所又はオンライン診療受診施設を一年を超えて休止してはならない。ただし、前条第一項の規定による届出をして開設した診療所又は助産所の開設者については、この限りでない。 art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-8-2/par-1 The establisher of a hospital, clinic or birthing center, or the founder of a facility for receiving online medical care, must not suspend the operation of the relevant hospital, clinic, birthing center or facility for receiving online medical care for more than one year without justifiable grounds; provided, however, that this does not apply to the establisher of a clinic or birthing center of which the prefectural governor was notified and that was established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 病院、診療所若しくは助産所の開設者又はオンライン診療受診施設の設置者が、その病院、診療所、助産所又はオンライン診療受診施設を休止したときは、十日以内に、都道府県知事（診療所、助産所又はオンライン診療受診施設にあつては、その所在地が保健所を設置する市又は特別区の区域にある場合においては、当該保健所を設置する市の市長又は特別区の区長。次条、第二十四条の二、第二十九条第一項、第二十九条の二及び第三十条において同じ。）に届け出なければならない。休止した病院、診療所、助産所又はオンライン診療受診施設を再開したときも、同様とする。 art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-8-2/par-2 When the establisher of a hospital, clinic or birthing center, or the founder of a facility for receiving online medical care, suspends the operation of the relevant hospital, clinic, birthing center or facility for receiving online medical care, they must notify the prefectural governor (in the case of a clinic, birthing center or facility for receiving online medical care, where its location is within the area of a city with a public health center or a special ward of Tokyo, the mayor of the city with a public health center or the mayor of the special ward; the same applies in the following Article, Article 24-2, Article 29, paragraph (1), Article 29-2 and Article 30) within ten days. The same applies when they resume the operation of a suspended hospital, clinic, birthing center or facility for receiving online medical care. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-8-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 医療法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-8/par-1 - art-8-2/par-2: 次条 → 医療法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-9 - art-8-2/par-2: 第二十四条の二 → 医療法 第二十四条の二 (Article 24-2), art-24-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-24-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-24-2 - art-8-2/par-2: 第二十九条第一項 → 医療法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29/par-1 - art-8-2/par-2: 第二十九条の二 → 医療法 第二十九条の二 (Article 29-2), art-29-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-29-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29-2 - art-8-2/par-2: 第三十条 → 医療法 第三十条 (Article 30), art-30 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第八十九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-89/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-89/par-1/item-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-20261019T151250-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19