This Act comes into force as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding 90 days from the date of its promulgation.

The Medical Care Act (Act No. 70 of 1942; hereinafter referred to as the "former Act") is hereby repealed.

①A person who has received a medical practitioner's license under the former Act or the Medical Practitioners' Act (Act No. 47 of 1906; hereinafter referred to as the "former Medical Practitioners' Act") is deemed to have received a medical license under this Act. The same applies to a person who acquired a medical license prior to the enforcement of the former Medical Practitioners' Act.

②With regard to the medical practices of persons who acquired a medical license prior to the enforcement of the former Medical Practitioners' Act, prior laws continue to govern.

③With regard to medical licenses and examinations of Japanese nationals who received medical licenses from the Governor General of Korea, the Governor General of Taiwan, the Governor of the Karafuto Agency, the Governor of the South Pacific Mandate, the Ambassador Plenipotentiary to Manchukuo, or Manchukuo before August 15, 1945, prior laws may continue to govern for a period of five years from the date on which this Act comes into effect.

④In addition to the persons prescribed in the preceding paragraph, with regard to medical licenses and examinations for Japanese nationals who, on or before August 15, 1945, received a medical practitioner's license or a license for medical practice in a foreign country under the laws and regulations of that place, or received a license for medical practice from a consular officer in the Republic of China (including Manchuria and Mengjiang), the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be followed until December 31, 1955.

Registration in a register of medical practitioners made under the former Act or the former Medical Practitioners' Act is deemed to be registration in a register of medical practitioners under this Act.

Dispositions regarding the revocation of a medical license or suspension of a medical practice made under the former Act or the former Medical Practitioners' Act are deemed to have been made pursuant to the corresponding provisions of this Act. In this case, with regard to the period of suspension, prior laws continue to govern.

With regard to punishment on persons who have violated the former Act, the former Medical Practitioners' Act, orders issued based on these, or dispositions made based on those orders, the provisions of the former Act and the former Medical Practitioners' Act remain applicable.

A person who falls under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Imperial Ordinance to Partially Revise the Order for Enforcement of the Medical Care Act (Imperial Ordinance No. 402 of 1946) may receive a medical license, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 2.

A person who falls under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Imperial Ordinance to Partially Revise the Order for Enforcement of the Medical Care Act (Imperial Ordinance No. 137 of 1947) may take the national examination for medical practitioners, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 11.

A university as provided for in the University Ordinance (Imperial Ordinance No. 388 of 1918) or a vocational college as provided for in the Vocational Training School Ordinance (Imperial Ordinance No. 61 of 1903) that is recognized as the continuation of a university or vocational college pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947) is deemed to be a university under Article 11, item (i) of this Act.

①Until otherwise provided for by law, the national government may, within the scope of its budget, provide a part of the fund to be allocated to the necessary expenses, where a prefecture is carrying out the relevant training itself, or may provide a part of the fund to be allocated to the expenses that the prefecture is subsidizing for the establisher, where the establisher of the hospital carrying out the training is other than the prefecture, as an interest-free loan for the development of facilities under Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Promotion of Social Infrastructure Development through the Use of Proceeds from the Sale of Stock of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (Act No. 86 of 1987) that, among the facilities that belong to a hospital provided for in Article 16-2, paragraph (1), are required for carrying out clinical training.

②The term of repayment for loans provided by the national government under the preceding paragraph is to be a term specified by Cabinet Order not exceeding five years (including any grace period not exceeding two years).

③Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, the method of repayment, advance repayment, and other necessary matters concerning repayment of loans under the provisions of paragraph (1), are specified by Cabinet Order.

④The national government is to, when it has provided a loan to a prefecture pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), subsidize an amount equivalent to the amount of loan for the development of facilities subject to the loan, and is to do so at the time of the loan's repayment, by delivering an amount of money equivalent to the amount of loan repaid.

⑤With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph when a prefecture has repaid an interest-free loan under paragraph (1) ahead of the due date for repayment determined pursuant to paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) (excluding cases specified by Cabinet Order), the repayment is deemed to have been made on the due date for repayment.