# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19) — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条 art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-19 **第一項** 助産所の開設者は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、嘱託する医師及び病院又は診療所を定めておかなければならない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-19/par-1 The establisher of a birthing center must provide for contract physicians and hospitals or clinics 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 a birthing center must provide for contract physicians and hospitals or clinics 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** 出張のみによつてその業務に従事する助産師は、妊婦等の助産を行うことを約するときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該妊婦等の異常に対応する病院又は診療所を定めなければならない。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-19/par-2 When a midwife who only does house calls enters into a contract which provides that she will give midwifery services to a pregnant woman, etc., she must specify the hospital or clinic that responds to the abnormality of the relevant pregnant woman, etc., pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第六条の四の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-4-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-4-3/par-1 - 医療法 第六条の七第三項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-7/par-3/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-7/par-3/item-7 - 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 附則第六条第一項（嘱託する病院又は診療所に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4181-84/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/art-6/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 19, 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