# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十条の二 (Article 10-2) - 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: 第十条の二 (Article 10-2) — address `art-10-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-10-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-10-2 - 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. --- ### 第十条の二 art-10-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-10-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-10-2 **第一項** 特定機能病院の開設者は、前条の規定により管理させる場合は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、第十六条の三第一項各号に掲げる事項の実施その他の特定機能病院の管理及び運営に関する業務の遂行に関し必要な能力及び経験を有する者を管理者として選任しなければならない。 art-10-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-10-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-10-2/par-1 The establisher of an advanced treatment hospital who intends to have it managed in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Article, pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must appoint as its administrator a person who has the necessary ability and experience to perform the particulars listed in each item of Article 16-3, paragraph (1) and other tasks related to the management and operation of the advanced treatment hospital. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The organizer of an advanced treatment hospital who intends to have it managed in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Article, pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must appoint as its administrator a person who has the necessary ability and experience to perform the particulars listed in each item of Article 16-3, paragraph (1) and other tasks related to the management and operation of the advanced treatment hospital." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **第二項** 前項の規定による特定機能病院の管理者の選任は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、特定機能病院の開設者と厚生労働省令で定める特別の関係がある者以外の者を構成員に含む管理者となる者を選考するための合議体を設置し、その審査の結果を踏まえて行わなければならない。 art-10-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-10-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-10-2/par-2 The appointment of an administrator of an advanced treatment hospital under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must be made based on the results of the examination by a council for selecting a candidate for administrator, which consists of the establisher of the advanced treatment hospital and persons other than those who have a special relationship as specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The appointment of an administrator of an advanced treatment hospital under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must be made based on the results of the examination by a council for selecting a candidate for administrator, which consists of the organizer of the advanced treatment hospital and persons other than those who have a special relationship as specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb --- ## Cites - art-10-2/par-1: 前条 → 医療法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-10 - art-10-2/par-1: 第十六条の三第一項 → 医療法 第十六条の三第一項 (Article 16-3, paragraph (1)), art-16-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-3/par-1 - art-10-2/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第十条の二第一項 (Article 10-2, paragraph (1)), art-10-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-10-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-10-2/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第十条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-10-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-10-2/par-2 - 医療法 第二十九条第四項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29/par-4/item-2 - 医療法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-5/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act (医療法), Article 10-2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act (医療法), Article 10-2, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19