# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五十四条の五 (Article 54-5) - 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: 第五十四条の五 (Article 54-5) — address `art-54-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-54-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-5 - 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. --- ### 第五十四条の五 art-54-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-54-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-5 **第一項** 社会医療法人は、社会医療法人債を発行する場合には、社会医療法人債管理者を定め、社会医療法人債権者のために、弁済の受領、債権の保全その他の社会医療法人債の管理を行うことを委託しなければならない。ただし、各社会医療法人債の金額が一億円以上である場合その他社会医療法人債権者の保護に欠けるおそれがないものとして厚生労働省令で定める場合は、この限りでない。 art-54-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-54-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-5/par-1 A social medical corporation, where it issues social medical corporation bonds, must appoint a social medical corporation bond administrator, and entrust the receipt of payments, the preservation of rights of claim on behalf of the social medical corporation bondholders, and other administration of the social medical corporation bonds to that administrator; provided, however, that this does not apply where the amount of each social medical corporation bond is 100,000,000 yen or more, and in other cases prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as cases where it is unlikely that the protection of social medical corporation bondholders will be compromised. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第五十四条の五の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-54-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-5-2/par-1 - 医療法 第九十一条第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-91/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-91/par-1/item-10 - 破産法 第百五十条第六項第二号（社債管理者等の費用及び報酬） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-150/par-6/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-150/par-6/item-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