# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二十三条の二 (Article 23-2) - 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: 第二十三条の二 (Article 23-2) — address `art-23-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-23-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-23-2 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条の二 art-23-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-23-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-23-2 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、病院又は療養病床を有する診療所について、その人員の配置が、第二十一条第一項（第一号に係る部分に限る。）又は第二項（第一号に係る部分に限る。）の規定に基づく厚生労働省令又は都道府県の条例で定める基準に照らして著しく不十分であり、かつ、適正な医療の提供に著しい支障が生ずる場合として厚生労働省令で定める場合に該当するときは、その開設者に対し、期限を定めて、その人員の増員を命じ、又は期間を定めて、その業務の全部若しくは一部の停止を命ずることができる。 art-23-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-23-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-23-2/par-1 When the distribution of personnel in a hospital or in a clinic with long-term care beds is significantly lacking in terms of the standards prescribed by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare or prefectural ordinances set forth in Article 21, paragraph (1) (limited to the parts pertaining to item (i)) or paragraph (2) (limited to the part pertaining to item (i)), and falls under cases prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as cases that cause a significant impediment to the suitable provision of medical care, the prefectural governor may order the establisher to increase the number of personnel by a set deadline, or may suspend all or a part of its operations for a period that the governor prescribes. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the distribution of personnel in a hospital or in a clinic with long-term care beds is significantly lacking in terms of the standards prescribed by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare or prefectural ordinances set forth in Article 21, paragraph (1) (limited to the parts pertaining to item (i)) or paragraph (2) (limited to the part pertaining to item (i)), and falls under cases prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as cases that cause a significant impediment to the suitable provision of medical care, the prefectural governor may order the organizer to increase the number of personnel by a set deadline, or may suspend all or a part of its operations for a period that the governor prescribes." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb --- ## Cites - art-23-2/par-1: 第二十一条第一項 → 医療法 第二十一条第一項 (Article 21, paragraph (1)), art-21/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-21/par-1 - art-23-2/par-1: 第一号 → 医療法 第二十一条第一項第一号 (Article 21, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-21/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-21/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-21/par-1/item-1 - art-23-2/par-1: 第二項 → 医療法 第二十一条第二項 (Article 21, paragraph (2)), art-21/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-21/par-2 - art-23-2/par-1: 第一号 → 医療法 第二十一条第二項第一号 (Article 21, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-21/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-21/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-21/par-2/item-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第二十四条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-24-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-24-2/par-1 - 医療法 第三十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30/par-1 - 医療法 第七十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-74/par-1 - 医療法 第八十七条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-87/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-87/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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 23-2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19