# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第四十三条 (Article 43) - 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: 第四十三条 (Article 43) — address `art-43` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-43 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-43 - 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. --- ### 第四十三条 art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-43 **第一項** 医療法人は、政令で定めるところにより、その設立、従たる事務所の新設、事務所の移転、その他登記事項の変更、解散、合併、分割、清算人の就任又はその変更及び清算の結了の各場合に、登記をしなければならない。 art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-43/par-1 A medical corporation must complete its registration pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, in the case of its establishment, the establishment of secondary offices, a relocation of its offices, a change in other registered particulars, dissolution, merger, split, the appointment or change of a liquidator, and the completion of liquidation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により登記しなければならない事項は、登記の後でなければ、これをもつて第三者に対抗することはできない。 art-43/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-43/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-43/par-2 Particulars which are to be registered pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may not be duly asserted against a third party after registration. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-43/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第四十三条第一項 (Article 43, paragraph (1)), art-43/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-43/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第四十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-43/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-43/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