# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第三十条の十八の三 (Article 30-18-3) - 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: 第三十条の十八の三 (Article 30-18-3) — address `art-30-18-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3 - 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. --- ### 第三十条の十八の三 art-30-18-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3 **第一項** 患者を入院させるための施設を有しない診療所（以下この条において「無床診療所」という。）の管理者は、地域における外来医療に係る病院及び診療所の機能の分化及び連携の推進のため、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、次に掲げる事項を当該無床診療所の所在地の都道府県知事に報告することができる。 art-30-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3/par-1 The administrator of a clinic that does not have facilities for admitting patients (hereinafter referred to as a "clinic without beds" in this Article) may, in order to promote the differentiation and coordination of the functions of hospitals and clinics relating to outpatient medical care in the region, report the following particulars to the prefectural governor of the location of the clinic without beds, pursuant to an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: machine translation, not official **一** 当該無床診療所において提供する外来医療のうち、前条第一項第一号の厚生労働省令で定める外来医療に該当するものの内容 art-30-18-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3/par-1/item-1 the details of the outpatient medical care provided at the clinic without beds that falls under the outpatient medical care specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article; machine translation, not official **二** 当該無床診療所が地域において前条第一項第一号の厚生労働省令で定める外来医療を提供する基幹的な診療所としての役割を担う意向を有する場合は、その旨 art-30-18-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3/par-1/item-2 in the case where the clinic without beds intends to play, in the region, the role of a core clinic that provides the outpatient medical care specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article, that fact; and machine translation, not official **三** その他厚生労働省令で定める事項 art-30-18-3/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3/par-1/item-3 other particulars prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第三十条の十三第三項及び第四項の規定は、前項の規定による報告について準用する。この場合において、同条第三項中「医療機関機能等報告対象病院等」とあるのは、「無床診療所」と読み替えるものとする。 art-30-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 30-13, paragraphs (3) and (4) apply mutatis mutandis to a report under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "hospital, etc. subject to a report on medical institution functions, etc." in paragraph (3) of that Article is replaced with "clinic without beds". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-30-18-3/par-1: この条 → 医療法 第三十条の十八の三 (Article 30-18-3), art-30-18-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3 - art-30-18-3/par-1/item-1: 前条第一項第一号 → 医療法 第三十条の十八の二第一項第一号 (Article 30-18-2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-30-18-2/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-2/par-1/item-1 - art-30-18-3/par-1/item-2: 前条第一項第一号 → 医療法 第三十条の十八の二第一項第一号 (Article 30-18-2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-30-18-2/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-2/par-1/item-1 - art-30-18-3/par-2: 第三十条の十三第三項 → 医療法 第三十条の十三第三項 (Article 30-13, paragraph (3)), art-30-13/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-13/par-3 - art-30-18-3/par-2: 第四項 → 医療法 第三十条の十三第四項 (Article 30-13, paragraph (4)), art-30-13/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-13/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-13/par-4 - art-30-18-3/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第三十条の十八の三第一項 (Article 30-18-3, paragraph (1)), art-30-18-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第三十条の三の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-3-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-3-2/par-2 - 医療法 第三十条の十八の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3/par-1 - 医療法 第三十条の十八の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-3/par-2 - 医療法 第三十条の十八の五第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-5/par-1/item-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-005, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19