# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二十七条の二 (Article 27-2) - 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: 第二十七条の二 (Article 27-2) — address `art-27-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-27-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27-2 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条の二 art-27-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-27-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27-2 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、病院又は診療所の開設者又は管理者が、正当な理由がなく、第七条第五項又は第六項の規定により当該許可に付された条件に従わないときは、当該病院又は診療所の開設者又は管理者に対し、都道府県医療審議会の意見を聴いて、期限を定めて、当該条件に従うべきことを勧告することができる。 art-27-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-27-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27-2/par-1 When the establisher or administrator of a hospital or clinic fails to comply with the conditions attached to the permission granted under the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (5) or (6) without justifiable grounds, the prefectural governor may recommend that the relevant establisher or administrator comply with the relevant conditions by a set deadline, after hearing the opinions of the Prefectural Council on Medical Service Facilities. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県知事は、前項の規定による勧告を受けた病院又は診療所の開設者又は管理者が、正当な理由がなく、当該勧告に係る措置をとらなかつたときは、当該病院又は診療所の開設者又は管理者に対し、都道府県医療審議会の意見を聴いて、期限を定めて、当該勧告に係る措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-27-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-27-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27-2/par-2 When the establisher or administrator of a hospital or clinic who has received a recommendation pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph fails to take measures pertaining to the relevant recommendation without justifiable grounds, the prefectural governor may order the relevant establisher or administrator to take measures pertaining to the relevant recommendation by a set deadline, after hearing the opinions of the Prefectural Council on Medical Service Facilities. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the organizer or administrator of a hospital or clinic who has received a recommendation pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph fails to take measures pertaining to the relevant recommendation without justifiable grounds, the prefectural governor may order the relevant organizer or administrator to take measures pertaining to the relevant recommendation by a set deadline, after hearing the opinions of the Prefectural Council on Medical Service Facilities." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **第三項** 都道府県知事は、前項の規定による命令をした場合において、当該命令を受けた病院又は診療所の開設者又は管理者がこれに従わなかつたときは、その旨を公表することができる。 art-27-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-27-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27-2/par-3 If a prefectural governor has issued an order under the preceding paragraph, and the establisher or administrator of a hospital or clinic who has received the relevant order fails to comply with it, the prefectural governor may make a public announcement to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a prefectural governor has issued an order under the preceding paragraph, and the organizer or administrator of a hospital or clinic who has received the relevant order fails to comply with it, the prefectural governor may make a public announcement to that effect." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb --- ## Cites - art-27-2/par-1: 第七条第五項 → 医療法 第七条第五項 (Article 7, paragraph (5)), art-7/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-7/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-5 - art-27-2/par-1: 第六項 → 医療法 第七条第六項 (Article 7, paragraph (6)), art-7/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-7/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-6 - art-27-2/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第二十七条の二第一項 (Article 27-2, paragraph (1)), art-27-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-27-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27-2/par-1 - art-27-2/par-3: 前項 → 医療法 第二十七条の二第二項 (Article 27-2, paragraph (2)), art-27-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-27-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27-2/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第二十七条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-27-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27-2/par-2 - 医療法 第二十七条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-27-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-27-2/par-3 - 医療法 第二十九条第三項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29/par-3/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29/par-3/item-6 - 医療法 第二十九条第四項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29/par-4/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29/par-4/item-6 --- ## 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 27-2, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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 27-2, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19