# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第百四十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 144) - 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: 第百四十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 144) — address `suppl-3231-205/art-144` - 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-144 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-144 - 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. --- ### 第百四十四条 suppl-3231-205/art-144 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-144 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-144 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、この法律を施行するために必要な限度において、医療機関勤務環境評価センターに対し、評価等業務に関し監督上必要な命令をすることができる。 suppl-3231-205/art-144/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-144/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-144/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, to the extent necessary to enforce the provisions of this Act, may issue to the medical institution work environment evaluation center orders necessary for the supervision of the evaluation services, etc. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第百四十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-146/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-146/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-20261019T151250-014, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19