# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六条の二十 (Article 6-20) - 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: 第六条の二十 (Article 6-20) — address `art-6-20` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-20 - 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. --- ### 第六条の二十 art-6-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-20 **第一項** 医療事故調査・支援センターは、厚生労働大臣の許可を受けなければ、調査等業務の全部又は一部を休止し、又は廃止してはならない。 art-6-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-20/par-1 The medical accident investigation and support center must not suspend or abolish all or part of the investigation services, etc. without obtaining approval from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第八十八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-88/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-88/par-1/item-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