# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六条の十五 (Article 6-15) - 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: 第六条の十五 (Article 6-15) — address `art-6-15` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-15 - 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. --- ### 第六条の十五 art-6-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-15 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、医療事故調査を行うこと及び医療事故が発生した病院等の管理者が行う医療事故調査への支援を行うことにより医療の安全の確保に資することを目的とする一般社団法人又は一般財団法人であつて、次条に規定する業務を適切かつ確実に行うことができると認められるものを、その申請により、医療事故調査・支援センターとして指定することができる。 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 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, upon application, may designate as a medical accident investigation and support center a general incorporated association or general incorporated foundation whose purpose is to contribute to ensuring the safety of medical care by conducting medical accident investigations and providing support for medical accident investigations conducted by the administrators of hospitals, etc. in which medical accidents have occurred, and which is found to be capable of appropriately and reliably performing the services prescribed in the following Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の規定による指定をしたときは、当該医療事故調査・支援センターの名称、住所及び事務所の所在地を公示しなければならない。 art-6-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-15/par-2 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has made a designation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the minister must make public the name, address, and office location of the relevant medical accident investigation and support center. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare has made a designation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the minister must make public the name, address, and office location of the relevant medical accident investigation and support center." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb **第三項** 医療事故調査・支援センターは、その名称、住所又は事務所の所在地を変更しようとするときは、あらかじめ、その旨を厚生労働大臣に届け出なければならない。 art-6-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-15/par-3 When a medical accident investigation and support center intends to change its name, address, or the location of its office, the center must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect in advance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の規定による届出があつたときは、当該届出に係る事項を公示しなければならない。 art-6-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-15/par-4 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has received a notification under the preceding paragraph, the minister must make public the particulars pertaining to the relevant notification. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-6-15/par-1: 次条 → 医療法 第六条の十六 (Article 6-16), art-6-16 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-16 - art-6-15/par-2: 前項 → 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-6-15/par-4: 前項 → 医療法 第六条の十五第三項 (Article 6-15, paragraph (3)), art-6-15/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-15/par-3 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第六条の十第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-10/par-1 - 医療法 第六条の十一第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-11/par-4 - 医療法 第六条の十五第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-15/par-2 - 医療法 第六条の十五第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-15/par-4 - 医療法 第六条の二十六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-26/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 附則第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-7/par-1 --- ## 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 6-15, paragraph (2) — 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