# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3) - 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: 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3) — address `art-51-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-51-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-51-3 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条の三 art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-51-3 **第一項** 医療法人（その事業活動の規模その他の事情を勘案して厚生労働省令で定める基準に該当する者に限る。次項において同じ。）は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、前条第三項の承認をした社員総会又は同条第五項において読み替えて準用する同条第三項の承認をした評議員会の終結後遅滞なく、同項（同条第五項において読み替えて準用する場合を含む。）の承認を受けた事業報告書等（貸借対照表及び損益計算書に限る。）を公告しなければならない。 art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-51-3/par-1 A medical corporation (limited to those that meet the standards specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of the scale of their business activities and other circumstances; the same applies in the following paragraph), pursuant to an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must publicize the business report, etc. (limited to the balance sheet and profit and loss statement) approved under paragraph (3) of that Article (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article), without delay after the close of the general meeting of members that gave the approval under paragraph (3) of the preceding Article or the meeting of the board of councillors that gave the approval under paragraph (3) of that Article as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、その公告方法が厚生労働省令で定める方法である医療法人は、同項に規定する事業報告書等の要旨を公告することで足りる。 art-51-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-51-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-51-3/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it is sufficient for a medical corporation whose method of public notice is a method specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to publicize a summary of the business report, etc. prescribed in that paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-51-3/par-1: 次項 → 医療法 第五十一条の三第二項 (Article 51-3, paragraph (2)), art-51-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-51-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-51-3/par-2 - art-51-3/par-1: 前条第三項 → 医療法 第五十一条の二第三項 (Article 51-2, paragraph (3)), art-51-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-51-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-51-2/par-3 - art-51-3/par-1: 同条第五項 → 医療法 第五十一条の二第五項 (Article 51-2, paragraph (5)), art-51-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-51-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-51-2/par-5 - art-51-3/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第五十一条の三第一項 (Article 51-3, paragraph (1)), art-51-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-51-3/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第五十一条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-51-3/par-1 - 医療法 第五十一条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-51-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-51-3/par-2 - 医療法 第七十条の十四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-14/par-1 - 医療法 第九十三条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-93/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-93/par-1/item-5 - 医療法 附則第十二条第二項（事業報告書等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4181-84/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/art-12/par-2 - 医療法 附則第八条第一項（事業報告書等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4271-74/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4271-74/art-8/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-008, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19