# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六条の十 (Article 6-10) - 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: 第六条の十 (Article 6-10) — address `art-6-10` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-10 - 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. --- ### 第六条の十 art-6-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-10 **第一項** 病院、診療所又は助産所（以下この章において「病院等」という。）の管理者は、医療事故（当該病院等に勤務する医療従事者が提供した医療に起因し、又は起因すると疑われる死亡又は死産であつて、当該管理者が当該死亡又は死産を予期しなかつたものとして厚生労働省令で定めるものをいう。以下この章において同じ。）が発生した場合には、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、遅滞なく、当該医療事故の日時、場所及び状況その他厚生労働省令で定める事項を第六条の十五第一項の医療事故調査・支援センターに報告しなければならない。 art-6-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-10/par-1 The administrator of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center (hereinafter referred to as "hospital, etc." in this Chapter), when a medical accident (meaning a death or stillbirth caused or suspected to be caused by medical care provided by medical care professionals working in the relevant hospital, etc. and determined by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a death or stillbirth which the relevant administrator did not expect; the same applies hereinafter in this Chapter) has occurred, the administrator must immediately report the date, time, place and circumstances of the relevant medical accident and other particulars specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to the medical accident investigation and support center set forth in Article 6-15, paragraph (1), pursuant to an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 病院等の管理者は、前項の規定による報告をするに当たつては、あらかじめ、医療事故に係る死亡した者の遺族又は医療事故に係る死産した胎児の父母その他厚生労働省令で定める者（以下この章において単に「遺族」という。）に対し、厚生労働省令で定める事項を説明しなければならない。ただし、遺族がないとき、又は遺族の所在が不明であるときは、この限りでない。 art-6-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-10/par-2 Prior to the submission of a report pursuant to the provision of the preceding paragraph, the administrator of the hospital, etc. must explain to the bereaved family of the deceased pertaining to the medical accident or the parents of the stillborn baby pertaining to the medical accident and other persons specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter simply referred to as "bereaved family" in this Chapter) about the particulars specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that this does not apply when there is no bereaved family or the whereabouts of the bereaved family are unknown. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-6-10/par-1: 第六条の十五第一項 → 医療法 第六条の十五第一項 (Article 6-15, paragraph (1)), art-6-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-15/par-1 - art-6-10/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第六条の十第一項 (Article 6-10, paragraph (1)), art-6-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-10/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第六条の十第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-10/par-2 - 医療法 第六条の十二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-12/par-1 - 医療法 第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-17/par-1 - 医療法 附則第二条第二項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-2/par-2 - 医療法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-6/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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19