# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二十九条の二 (Article 29-2) - 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: 第二十九条の二 (Article 29-2) — address `art-29-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29-2 - 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. --- ### 第二十九条の二 art-29-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29-2 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、国民の健康を守るため緊急の必要があると認めるときは、都道府県知事に対し、第二十八条並びに前条第一項及び第二項の規定による処分を行うべきことを指示することができる。 art-29-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29-2/par-1 If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds an urgent necessity to protect the health of the citizens, the minister may instruct a prefectural governor to render a disposition pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, and paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-29-2/par-1: 第二十八条 → 医療法 第二十八条 (Article 28), art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-28 - art-29-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 医療法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29/par-1 - art-29-2/par-1: 第二項 → 医療法 第二十九条第二項 (Article 29, paragraph (2)), art-29/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第八条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-8-2/par-2 --- ## 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