# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3601-102` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-102 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-102 - 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. --- ## 附　則 昭和六〇年一二月二四日法律第一〇二号 suppl-3601-102 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-102 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-102 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3601-102/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-102/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-102/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から施行する。 suppl-3601-102/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-102/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-102/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official ### 第八条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3601-102/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-102/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-102/art-8 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条各号に掲げる規定については、当該各規定）の施行前にした行為及び附則第四条の規定により従前の例によることとされる場合における第十一条の規定の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3601-102/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-102/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-102/art-8/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those respective provisions) comes into effect and to acts committed after the provisions of Article 11 come into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3601-102/art-8/par-1: 附則第一条 → 医療法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-3601-102/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-102/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-102/art-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第八条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-102/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-102/art-8/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-016, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19