# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第百四十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 140) - 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: 第百四十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 140) — address `suppl-3231-205/art-140` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-140 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-140 - 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. --- ### 第百四十条 suppl-3231-205/art-140 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-140 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-140 **第一項** 医療機関勤務環境評価センターは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、評価等業務の一部を、厚生労働大臣の承認を受けて、他の者に委託することができる。 suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-1 A medical institution work environment evaluation center, pursuant to an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, may entrust part of the evaluation services, etc. to another person with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定による委託を受けた者若しくはその役員若しくは職員又はこれらの者であつた者は、正当な理由がなく、当該委託に係る業務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-2 A person entrusted pursuant to the preceding paragraph, an officer or employee of that person, or a person who has been any of these, must not disclose, without justifiable grounds, any secret learned in relation to the operations pertaining to the entrustment. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 附則第百四十条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 140, paragraph (1)), suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第百四十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-140/par-2 - 医療法 附則第百四十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-146/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-146/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百四十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-147/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-014, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19