# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第百二十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 126)

- 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: 第百二十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 126) — address `suppl-3231-205/art-126`
- 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-126
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-126
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### 第百二十六条
<sup>suppl-3231-205/art-126 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-126 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-126</sup>

**第一項**  都道府県知事は、特定労務管理対象機関の管理者が、正当な理由がなく、第百二十三条第一項本文又は第二項後段に規定する休息時間の確保を行つていないと認めるときは、当該特定労務管理対象機関の開設者に対し、期限を定めて、その改善に必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。
<sup>suppl-3231-205/art-126/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-126/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-126/par-1</sup>
Where the prefectural governor finds that the administrator of an institution subject to specified labor management has, without justifiable grounds, not ensured the rest periods prescribed in the main clause of Article 123, paragraph (1) or the second sentence of paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, the prefectural governor may order the establisher of the institution subject to specified labor management to take the measures necessary for improvement, specifying a time limit.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3231-205/art-126/par-1: 第百二十三条第一項 → 医療法 附則第百二十三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 123, paragraph (1)), suppl-3231-205/art-123/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-123/par-1
- suppl-3231-205/art-126/par-1: 第二項 → 医療法 附則第百二十三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 123, paragraph (2)), suppl-3231-205/art-123/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-123/par-2

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 医療法 附則第百十七条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-117/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-117/par-1/item-4
- 医療法 附則第百二十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-127/par-1
- 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 附則第百四十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-148/par-1

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## 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
