The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to publicize the names of medical practitioners and other matters specified by Cabinet Order, to enable persons receiving medical treatment and the citizens to confirm the qualifications of medical practitioners and to choose adequate medical treatment.

The affairs to be administered by the prefectures pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (3), Article 7, paragraph (4) and the first sentence of paragraph (8), and paragraphs (10) and (11) of that Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 7-2, paragraph (5)); Article 15, paragraphs (1) and (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22, paragraph (3) of that Act), Article 16, paragraph (4), Article 18, paragraphs (1) and (3), Article 19, paragraph (1), Article 20, paragraph (6) and Article 24, paragraph (3) of the Administrative Procedure Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 7, paragraph (5); and Article 15, paragraph (3) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22, paragraph (3) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the second sentence of Article 7, paragraph (8) are Type I statutory entrusted functions prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947).