# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2) - 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: 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2) — address `art-15-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-15-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-2 - 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. 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. --- ### 第十五条の二 art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-2 **第一項** 病院、診療所又は助産所の管理者は、当該病院、診療所又は助産所において、臨床検査技師等に関する法律（昭和三十三年法律第七十六号）第二条に規定する検体検査（以下この条及び次条第一項において「検体検査」という。）の業務を行う場合は、検体検査の業務を行う施設の構造設備、管理組織、検体検査の精度の確保の方法その他の事項を検体検査の業務の適正な実施に必要なものとして厚生労働省令で定める基準に適合させなければならない。 art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-2/par-1 The administrator of a hospital, clinic or birthing center, when performing specimen testing prescribed in Article 2 of the Act on Clinical Laboratory Technicians (Act No. 76 of 1958) (hereinafter referred to as "specimen testing" in this Article and paragraph (1) of the following Article) in the relevant hospital, clinic or birthing center, must ensure that the buildings and equipment of the facilities where specimen testing is performed, management organization, methods for ensuring the accuracy of specimen testing and other particulars conform to the standards specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as necessary for the proper performance of specimen testing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15-2/par-1: 臨床検査技師等に関する法律（昭和三十三年法律第七十六号）第二条 → e-Gov law 333AC1000000076, 第二条 (Article 2), art-2 — not held in this collection - art-15-2/par-1: この条 → 医療法 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2), art-15-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-2 - art-15-2/par-1: 次条第一項 → 医療法 第十五条の三第一項 (Article 15-3, paragraph (1)), art-15-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-15-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-3/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第十五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-2/par-1 - 医療法 第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-17/par-1 - 医療法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-6/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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19