# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（検討等） — address `suppl-3601-109/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-109/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-109/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（検討等） — Review, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3601-109/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-109/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-109/art-2 **第一項** 政府は、今後の人口動向、医学医術の進歩の推移等を勘案し、病院及び診療所の在り方並びに老人保健施設等の位置付け及びその適正な配置を含め、医療を提供する体制に関し、速やかに検討を加え、その結果に基づいて法制の整備その他の必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-3601-109/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-109/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-109/art-2/par-1 In consideration of future population trends, progress in medicine and medical science, etc., the Government is to promptly conduct a review of the system for providing medical care, including the state of hospitals and clinics and the positioning and appropriate distribution of health care facilities for the elderly, etc., and take necessary measures such as the development of legislation based on the results. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-109/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-109/art-1/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