# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第百四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 104) - 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: 第百四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 104) — address `suppl-3231-205/art-104` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-104 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-104 - 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. --- ### 第百四条 suppl-3231-205/art-104 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-104 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-104 **第一項** 都道府県は、平成二十五年四月一日から令和十五年三月三十一日までの間、医療計画を作成するに当たつては、離島振興法（昭和二十八年法律第七十二号）第二条第一項の規定により離島振興対策実施地域として指定された地域における医療の特殊事情に鑑み、当該地域において医師等の確保、病床の確保等により必要な医療が確保されるよう適切な配慮をするものとする。 suppl-3231-205/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-104/par-1 From April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2033, in preparing a medical care plan, a prefecture is to give appropriate consideration, in light of the special circumstances of medical care in an area designated as a remote island development measures implementation area pursuant to Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Remote Islands Development Act (Act No. 72 of 1953), so that necessary medical care is ensured in that area through ensuring the availability of physicians, etc., securing hospital beds, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3231-205/art-104/par-1: 離島振興法（昭和二十八年法律第七十二号）第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 328AC1000000072, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection --- ## 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-20261019T151250-011, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19