# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第八十八条 (Article 88) - 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: 第八十八条 (Article 88) — address `art-88` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-88 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-88 - 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. --- ### 第八十八条 art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-88 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、その違反行為をした医療事故調査・支援センターの役員又は職員は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-88/par-1 In any of the cases listed in the following items, an officer or employee of the medical accident investigation and support center who has committed the violation is punished by a fine of up to 300,000 yen: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第六条の二十の許可を受けないで、調査等業務の全部を廃止したとき。 art-88/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-88/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-88/par-1/item-1 when they have abolished all of the investigation services, etc. without obtaining the approval under Article 6-20; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第六条の二十三の規定による帳簿の記載をせず、虚偽の記載をし、又は帳簿を保存しなかつたとき。 art-88/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-88/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-88/par-1/item-2 when they have failed to make entries in the books, made false entries, or failed to preserve the books pursuant to the provisions of Article 6-23; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 第六条の二十四第一項の規定による報告を怠り、若しくは虚偽の報告をし、又は同項の規定による検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避したとき。 art-88/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-88/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-88/par-1/item-3 when they have failed to make a report or made a false report set forth in Article 6-24, paragraph (1), or refused, obstructed, or evaded an inspection set forth in the same paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-88/par-1/item-1: 第六条の二十 → 医療法 第六条の二十 (Article 6-20), art-6-20 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-20 - art-88/par-1/item-2: 第六条の二十三 → 医療法 第六条の二十三 (Article 6-23), art-6-23 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-23 - art-88/par-1/item-3: 第六条の二十四第一項 → 医療法 第六条の二十四第一項 (Article 6-24, paragraph (1)), art-6-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-24/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