# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4041-89/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4041-89/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-1 **第一項** この法律中第一条、次条から附則第十二条まで、附則第十四条、附則第二十条及び附則第二十一条の規定は公布の日から、附則第十三条の規定は看護婦等の人材確保の促進に関する法律（平成四年法律第八十六号）の施行の日から、第二条及び附則第十五条から第十九条までの規定は公布の日から起算して一年を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。 suppl-4041-89/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-1/par-1 In this Act, the provisions of Article 1, the following Article through Article 12 of the Supplementary Provisions, Article 14 of the Supplementary Provisions, and Article 20 and Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date of promulgation; the provisions of Article 13 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date of enforcement of the Act on Promotion of Securing Human Resources Such as Nurses (Act No. 86 of 1992); and the provisions of Article 2 and Articles 15 through 19 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year from the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4041-89/art-1/par-1: 次条から附則第十二条まで → 医療法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4041-89/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-2 - suppl-4041-89/art-1/par-1: 附則第十四条 → 医療法 附則第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14), suppl-4041-89/art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-14 - suppl-4041-89/art-1/par-1: 附則第二十条 → 医療法 附則第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20), suppl-4041-89/art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-20 - suppl-4041-89/art-1/par-1: 附則第二十一条 → 医療法 附則第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21), suppl-4041-89/art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-21 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-017, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 211 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19