# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五十六条の十六 (Article 56-16) - 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: 第五十六条の十六 (Article 56-16) — address `art-56-16` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-56-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-16 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条の十六 art-56-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-56-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-16 **第一項** 裁判所は、医療法人の解散及び清算の監督に必要な調査をさせるため、検査役を選任することができる。 art-56-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-56-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-16/par-1 A court may appoint an inspector so as to have them carry out the necessary investigations for the supervision of the dissolution and liquidation of a medical corporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前二条の規定は、前項の規定により裁判所が検査役を選任した場合について準用する。この場合において、前条中「清算人及び監事」とあるのは、「医療法人及び検査役」と読み替えるものとする。 art-56-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-56-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-16/par-2 The provisions of the preceding two Articles apply mutatis mutandis to where the court has appointed an inspector as prescribed in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "liquidator and the auditor" in the preceding Article is replaced with "medical corporation and the inspector". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-56-16/par-2: 前二条 → 医療法 第五十六条の十四 (Article 56-14), art-56-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-56-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-14 - art-56-16/par-2: 前二条 → 医療法 第五十六条の十五 (Article 56-15), art-56-15 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-56-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-15 - art-56-16/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第五十六条の十六第一項 (Article 56-16, paragraph (1)), art-56-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-56-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-16/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第五十六条の十六第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-56-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-56-16/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