# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第七条の三 (Article 7-3) - Law: 医師法 (Medical Practitioners' Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百一号 - English title "Medical Practitioners' 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: 第七条の三 (Article 7-3) — address `art-7-3` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-3 - 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. --- ### 第七条の三 art-7-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-3 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、医師について第七条第一項の規定による処分をすべきか否かを調査する必要があると認めるときは、当該事案に関係する者若しくは参考人から意見若しくは報告を徴し、診療録その他の物件の所有者に対し、当該物件の提出を命じ、又は当該職員をして当該事案に関係のある病院その他の場所に立ち入り、診療録その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-7-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-3/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that it is necessary to investigate whether a disposition should be made regarding a medical practitioner pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1), the Minister may seek the opinions of and collect reports from persons who are connected with the case, or witnesses, order the owners of medical records and other objects to submit them, and have the relevant officials enter the hospital or any other location that is connected with the case and inspect the medical records and other objects. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により立入検査をしようとする職員は、その身分を示す証明書を携帯し、関係人の請求があつたときは、これを提示しなければならない。 art-7-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-3/par-2 An official seeking to carry out entry and inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must carry an identification card and produce it when requested to do so by the persons concerned. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定による立入検査の権限は、犯罪捜査のために認められたものと解してはならない。 art-7-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-3/par-3 The authority for entry and inspection pursuant to paragraph (1) must not be construed as being approved for the purposes of criminal investigation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-7-3/par-1: 第七条第一項 → 医師法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7/par-1 - art-7-3/par-2: 前項 → 医師法 第七条の三第一項 (Article 7-3, paragraph (1)), art-7-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-3/par-1 - art-7-3/par-3: 第一項 → 医師法 第七条の三第一項 (Article 7-3, paragraph (1)), art-7-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-3/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医師法 第七条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-3/par-2 - 医師法 第七条の三第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-3/par-3 - 医師法 第三十三条の三第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-33-3/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-33-3/par-1/item-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医師法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000201/20260521_505AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-09 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Practitioners' Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3992/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-practitioners-act-20261009T095312-001, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09