# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第四十九条の二 (Article 49-2)

- 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: 第四十九条の二 (Article 49-2) — address `art-49-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-49-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-49-2
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### 第四十九条の二
<sup>art-49-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-49-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-49-2</sup>

    **第一項**  一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律第六章第二節第二款の規定は、社団たる医療法人について準用する。この場合において、同法第二百七十八条第一項中「法務省令」とあるのは「厚生労働省令」と、「設立時社員、設立時理事、役員等（第百十一条第一項に規定する役員等をいう。第三項において同じ。）又は清算人」とあるのは「理事又は監事」と、同条第三項中「設立時社員、設立時理事、役員等若しくは清算人」とあるのは「理事又は監事」と、「法務省令」とあるのは「厚生労働省令」と、同法第二百八十条第二項及び第二百八十条の二中「清算人並びにこれらの者」とあるのは「理事」と読み替えるものとする。
    <sup>art-49-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-49-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-49-2/par-1</sup>
    The provisions of Chapter VI, Section 2, Subsection 2 of the Act on General Incorporated Associations and General Incorporated Foundations apply mutatis mutandis to a medical corporation as an association. In this case, the term "Ministry of Justice Order" in Article 278, paragraph (1) of the same Act is replaced with "Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare", the term "members at the time of incorporation, directors at the time of incorporation, officers, etc. (meaning officers, etc. prescribed in Article 111, paragraph (1); the same applies in paragraph (3)) or liquidators" is replaced with "directors or auditors", the terms "members at the time of incorporation, directors at the time of incorporation, officers, etc. or liquidators" and "Ministry of Justice Order" in paragraph (3) of the same Article are replaced with "directors or auditors" and "Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare", respectively, and the term "liquidators and these persons" in Article 280, paragraph (2) and Article 280-2 of the same Act is replaced with "directors".
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261019T151250-007, translated 2026-10-20
- This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19