# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - 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: 第十二条 (Article 12) — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条 art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12 **第一項** 病院、診療所又は助産所の開設者が、病院、診療所又は助産所の管理者となることができる者である場合は、自らその病院、診療所又は助産所を管理しなければならない。ただし、病院、診療所又は助産所の所在地の都道府県知事の許可を受けた場合は、他の者にこれを管理させることができる。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12/par-1 The establisher of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center must manage the relevant hospital, clinic, or birthing center themselves if they are a person capable of being the administrator of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center; provided, however, that it is permissible for the establisher to have another party manage where permitted by the prefectural governor of the area in which the hospital, clinic, or birthing center is situated. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The organizer of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center must manage the relevant hospital, clinic, or birthing center themselves if they are a person capable of being the administrator of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center; provided, however, that it is permissible for the organizer to have another party manage where permitted by the prefectural governor of the area in which the hospital, clinic, or birthing center is situated." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **第二項** 病院、診療所又は助産所を管理する医師、歯科医師又は助産師は、次の各号のいずれかに該当するものとしてその病院、診療所又は助産所の所在地の都道府県知事の許可を受けた場合を除くほか、他の病院、診療所又は助産所を管理しない者でなければならない。 art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12/par-2 The physician, dentist, or midwife who manages a hospital, clinic, or birthing center must be a person who does not manage any other hospital, clinic, or birthing center, except where permitted by the prefectural governor of the area in which the relevant hospital, clinic, or birthing center is situated as falling under any of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 医師の確保を特に図るべき区域内に開設する診療所を管理しようとする場合 art-12/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12/par-2/item-1 when intending to manage a clinic established in an acute physician shortage area; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 介護老人保健施設その他の厚生労働省令で定める施設に開設する診療所を管理しようとする場合 art-12/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12/par-2/item-2 when intending to manage a clinic established in a long-term care health facility or other facilities specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 事業所等に従業員等を対象として開設される診療所を管理しようとする場合 art-12/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12/par-2/item-3 when intending to manage a clinic established in an office or other places of business for employees, etc; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 地域における休日又は夜間の第三十条の三第一項に規定する医療提供体制の確保のために開設される診療所を管理しようとする場合 art-12/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12/par-2/item-4 when intending to manage a clinic established to secure the medical care delivery system prescribed in Article 30-3, paragraph (1) on holidays or at night in the region; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** その他厚生労働省令で定める場合 art-12/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12/par-2/item-5 other cases specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-12/par-2/item-4: 第三十条の三第一項 → 医療法 第三十条の三第一項 (Article 30-3, paragraph (1)), art-30-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-3/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-1 - 医療法 第八十九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-89/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-89/par-1/item-1 - 医療法 附則第九十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-99/par-1 - 医療法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4301-79/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4301-79/art-4/par-1 - 医療法 附則第五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4301-79/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4301-79/art-5/par-2 --- ## 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 12, paragraph (1) — 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