# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第四十九条の四 (Article 49-4) - 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: 第四十九条の四 (Article 49-4) — address `art-49-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-49-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-49-4 - 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. --- ### 第四十九条の四 art-49-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-49-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-49-4 **第一項** 一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律第二章第三節第九款の規定は、社団たる医療法人及び財団たる医療法人について準用する。この場合において、これらの規定（同法第百十八条の三第一項及び第三項を除く。）中「役員等」とあるのは「役員」と、同条第一項中「役員等が」とあるのは「役員が」と、「役員等を」とあるのは「役員を」と、「役員等の」とあるのは「役員の」と、「法務省令」とあるのは「厚生労働省令」と、同項及び同条第三項中「役員等賠償責任保険契約」とあるのは「役員賠償責任保険契約」と読み替えるものとするほか、必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。 art-49-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-49-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-49-4/par-1 The provisions of Chapter II, Section 3, Subsection 9 of the Act on General Incorporated Associations and General Incorporated Foundations apply mutatis mutandis to a medical corporation as an association and a medical corporation as a foundation. In this case, the term "officers, etc." in these provisions (excluding Article 118-3, paragraphs (1) and (3) of that Act) is replaced with "officers", the term "officers, etc." in paragraph (1) of that Article (other than in "officers, etc. liability insurance contract") is replaced with "officers", the term "Ministry of Justice Order" in that paragraph is replaced with "Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare", the term "officers, etc. liability insurance contract" in that paragraph and paragraph (3) of that Article is replaced with "officers liability insurance contract", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms is to be prescribed by a Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## 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