# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五十八条の四 (Article 58-4) - 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: 第五十八条の四 (Article 58-4) — address `art-58-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-4 - 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. --- ### 第五十八条の四 art-58-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-4 **第一項** 医療法人は、前条第一項の期間内に、その債権者に対し、異議があれば一定の期間内に述べるべき旨を公告し、かつ、判明している債権者に対しては、各別にこれを催告しなければならない。ただし、その期間は、二月を下ることができない。 art-58-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-4/par-1 A medical corporation, within the period set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, is to make a public notice to its creditors to the effect that any objection, if any, should be stated within a certain period of time, and must notify each known creditor separately. However, such period is not to be less than two months. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 債権者が前項の期間内に吸収合併に対して異議を述べなかつたときは、吸収合併を承認したものとみなす。 art-58-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-4/par-2 If creditors do not object to the absorption-type merger within the period set forth in the preceding paragraph, it is to be deemed that they have approved the absorption-type merger. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 債権者が異議を述べたときは、医療法人は、これに弁済をし、若しくは相当の担保を提供し、又はその債権者に弁済を受けさせることを目的として信託会社等（信託会社及び信託業務を営む金融機関（金融機関の信託業務の兼営等に関する法律（昭和十八年法律第四十三号）第一条第一項の認可を受けた金融機関をいう。）をいう。以下同じ。）に相当の財産を信託しなければならない。ただし、吸収合併をしてもその債権者を害するおそれがないときは、この限りでない。 art-58-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-4/par-3 When a creditor has made an objection, the medical corporation must pay or provide reasonable security to the creditor or place reasonable property with a trust company, etc. (meaning a trust company and a financial institution (meaning a financial institution authorized under Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Act on Engagement in Trust Business by Financial Institutions (Act No. 43 of 1943)) engaged in trust business; the same applies hereinafter) for the purpose of having the creditor receive payment; provided, however, that this does not apply when the absorption-type merger is unlikely to harm the creditor. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a creditor has made an objection, the medical corporation must pay or provide reasonable security to the creditor or place reasonable property with a trust company, etc. (meaning a trust company and a financial institution (meaning a financial institution authorized under Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Act on Engagement in Trust Business by Financial Institutions (Act No. 43 of 1943) engaged in trust business; the same applies hereinafter) for the purpose of having the creditor receive payment; provided, however, that this does not apply when the absorption-type merger is unlikely to harm the creditor." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb --- ## Cites - art-58-4/par-1: 前条第一項 → 医療法 第五十八条の三第一項 (Article 58-3, paragraph (1)), art-58-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-3/par-1 - art-58-4/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第五十八条の四第一項 (Article 58-4, paragraph (1)), art-58-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-4/par-1 - art-58-4/par-3: 金融機関の信託業務の兼営等に関する法律（昭和十八年法律第四十三号）第一条第一項 → e-Gov law 318AC0000000043, 第一条第一項 (Article 1, paragraph (1)), art-1/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第五十八条の四第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-4/par-2 - 医療法 第五十九条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-59-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-59-2/par-1 - 医療法 第九十三条第一項第十二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-93/par-1/item-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-93/par-1/item-12 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act (医療法), Article 58-4, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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