# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28) - 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28) — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条 art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-28 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、病院、診療所又は助産所の管理者に、犯罪若しくは医事に関する不正行為があり、又はその者が管理をなすのに適しないと認めるときは、その開設者に対し、期限を定めて、その変更を命ずることができる。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-28/par-1 When the prefectural governor finds the administrator of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center to have committed a criminal act, to have committed an unlawful act related to medical practice, or to be unfit to manage, the governor may order the establisher of the relevant hospital, clinic, or birthing center to replace the relevant administrator by a set deadline. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the prefectural governor finds the administrator of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center to have committed a criminal act, to have committed an unlawful act related to medical practice, or to be unfit to manage, the governor may order the organizer of the relevant hospital, clinic, or birthing center to replace the the relevant administrator by a set deadline." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-1 - 医療法 第二十九条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29/par-1/item-3 - 医療法 第二十九条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29-2/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 28, 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