# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十二条の三 (Article 12-3) - 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: 第十二条の三 (Article 12-3) — address `art-12-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12-3 - 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. --- ### 第十二条の三 art-12-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12-3 **第一項** 特定機能病院の開設者は、厚生労働省令の定めるところにより、業務に関する報告書を厚生労働大臣に提出しなければならない。 art-12-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12-3/par-1 The establisher of an advanced treatment hospital must submit reports concerning its operation to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of 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 organizer of an advanced treatment hospital must submit reports concerning its operation to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、前項の報告書の内容を公表しなければならない。 art-12-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12-3/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must make public the details of the reports set forth in the preceding paragraph pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-12-3/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第十二条の三第一項 (Article 12-3, paragraph (1)), art-12-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12-3/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第十二条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-12-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-12-3/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（業務に関する報告書の内容の公表に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4181-84/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/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 12-3, 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