# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第百二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 121) - 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: 第百二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 121) — address `suppl-3231-205/art-121` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-121 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-121 - 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. --- ### 第百二十一条 suppl-3231-205/art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-121 **第一項** 前条第一項の確認を受けようとする病院又は診療所は、実費を勘案して政令で定める額の手数料を納付しなければならない。 suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-1 A hospital or clinic seeking to obtain the confirmation under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article must pay a fee in an amount specified by Cabinet Order in consideration of actual costs. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前条第一項の確認に係る事務の全部又は一部を、厚生労働省令で定める者に委託することができる。 suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may entrust all or part of the administrative work pertaining to the confirmation under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a person specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の規定による委託を受けた者若しくはその役員若しくは職員又はこれらの者であつた者は、正当な理由がなく、当該委託に係る事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-3 A person entrusted pursuant to the preceding paragraph, an officer or employee of that person, or a person who has been any of these, must not disclose, without justifiable grounds, any secret learned in relation to the work pertaining to the entrustment. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-1: 前条第一項 → 医療法 附則第百二十条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 120, paragraph (1)), suppl-3231-205/art-120/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-120/par-1 - suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-2: 前条第一項 → 医療法 附則第百二十条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 120, paragraph (1)), suppl-3231-205/art-120/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-120/par-1 - suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-3: 前項 → 医療法 附則第百二十一条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 121, paragraph (2)), suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第百二十一条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-121/par-3 - 医療法 附則第百二十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-129/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-129/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百四十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-147/par-1 - 医療法 附則第十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5031-49/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5031-49/art-10/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-20261019T151250-013, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19