Supplementary Provisions, Article 44
第四十四条
Until 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.
国は、当分の間、都道府県に対し、第十六条の二第一項に規定する病院に附属する施設のうち臨床研修を行うために必要なものの整備で日本電信電話株式会社の株式の売払収入の活用による社会資本の整備の促進に関する特別措置法（昭和六十二年法律第八十六号）第二条第一項第二号に該当するものにつき、当該都道府県が自ら行う場合にあつてはその要する費用に充てる資金の一部を、都道府県以外の病院の開設者が行う場合にあつては当該開設者に対し当該都道府県が補助する費用に充てる資金の一部を、予算の範囲内において、無利子で貸し付けることができる。
The 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).
前項の国の貸付金の償還期間は、五年（二年以内の据置期間を含む。）以内で政令で定める期間とする。
Beyond 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.
The 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.
国は、第一項の規定により都道府県に対し貸付けを行つた場合には、当該貸付けの対象である施設の整備について、当該貸付金に相当する金額の補助を行うものとし、当該補助については、当該貸付金の償還時において、当該貸付金の償還金に相当する金額を交付することにより行うものとする。
With 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.