# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五十九条の二 (Article 59-2) - 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: 第五十九条の二 (Article 59-2) — address `art-59-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-59-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-59-2 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条の二 art-59-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-59-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-59-2 **第一項** 第五十八条の二から第五十八条の四までの規定は、医療法人が新設合併をする場合について準用する。この場合において、第五十八条の二第一項及び第三項中「吸収合併契約」とあるのは「新設合併契約」と、同条第四項中「吸収合併存続医療法人」とあるのは「新設合併設立医療法人」と読み替えるものとする。 art-59-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-59-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-59-2/par-1 The provisions of Article 58-2 through Article 58-4 apply mutatis mutandis to the case where a medical corporation conducts a consolidation-type merger. In this case, the term "absorption-type merger agreement" in Article 58-2, paragraphs (1) and (3) is replaced with "consolidation-type merger agreement", and the term "surviving medical corporation in the absorption-type merger" in paragraph (4) of the same Article is replaced with "medical corporation established in the consolidation-type merger". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-59-2/par-1: 第五十八条の二から第五十八条の四まで → 医療法 第五十八条の二 (Article 58-2), art-58-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-2 - art-59-2/par-1: 第五十八条の二から第五十八条の四まで → 医療法 第五十八条の三 (Article 58-3), art-58-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-3 - art-59-2/par-1: 第五十八条の二から第五十八条の四まで → 医療法 第五十八条の四 (Article 58-4), art-58-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-4 - art-59-2/par-1: 第五十八条の二第一項 → 医療法 第五十八条の二第一項 (Article 58-2, paragraph (1)), art-58-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-2/par-1 - art-59-2/par-1: 第三項 → 医療法 第五十八条の二第三項 (Article 58-2, paragraph (3)), art-58-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-2/par-3 - art-59-2/par-1: 同条第四項 → 医療法 第五十八条の二第四項 (Article 58-2, paragraph (4)), art-58-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-58-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-58-2/par-4 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-67/par-1 - 医療法 第七十条の二十三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-23/par-1 - 医療法 第九十三条第一項第十一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-93/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-93/par-1/item-11 - 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 - 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