# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第四十一条 (Article 41) - 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: 第四十一条 (Article 41) — address `art-41` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-41 - 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. --- ### 第四十一条 art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-41 **第一項** 医療法人は、その業務を行うに必要な資産を有しなければならない。 art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-41/par-1 A medical corporation must possess the assets necessary for it to operate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の資産に関し必要な事項は、医療法人の開設する医療機関の規模等に応じ、厚生労働省令で定める。 art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-41/par-2 Necessary particulars concerning the assets set forth in the preceding paragraph are to be as prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in accordance with the scale, etc. of medical care functions established by the medical corporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-41/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-41/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第四十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-41/par-2 - 医療法 第四十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-45/par-1 - 医療法 第七十条の十第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-10/par-1 - 医療法 第七十条の十八第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-18/par-1 --- ## 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