# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第八十二条 (Article 82) - 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: 第八十二条 (Article 82) — address `art-82` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-82 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-82 - 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. --- ### 第八十二条 art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-82 **第一項** 次に掲げる事項に関し、不正の請託を受けて、財産上の利益を収受し、又はその要求若しくは約束をした者は、五年以下の拘禁刑又は五百万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-82/par-1 A person who has accepted, solicited or promised to accept property benefits in relation to any one of the following matters, in response to a wrongful request, is punished by imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than five million yen: machine translation, not official **一** 社会医療法人債権者集会における発言又は議決権の行使 art-82/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-82/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-82/par-1/item-1 a statement of opinion or the exercise of a voting right at a social medical corporation bondholders meeting; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 社会医療法人債の総額（償還済みの額を除く。）の十分の一以上に当たる社会医療法人債を有する社会医療法人債権者の権利の行使 art-82/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-82/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-82/par-1/item-2 the exercise of the rights of a social medical corporation bondholder who holds one-tenth or more of the total amount of social medical corporation bonds (excluding bonds that have been redeemed). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の利益を供与し、又はその申込み若しくは約束をした者も、同項と同様とする。 art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-82/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph also apply to a person who has given, offered, or promised to give the benefit set forth in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-82/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-82/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第八十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-82/par-2 - 医療法 第八十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-83/par-1 - 医療法 第八十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-84/par-1 - 医療法 第八十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-84/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-84/par-2 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-010, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19