# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-4261-83/art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条 suppl-4261-83/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-7 **第一項** 第五号新医療法第六条の十五第一項の規定による指定及びこれに関し必要な手続その他の行為は、第五号施行日前においても、同項並びに第五号新医療法第六条の十八及び第六条の十九第一項の規定の例により行うことができる。 suppl-4261-83/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-7/par-1 The designation under Article 6-15, paragraph (1) of the item (v) New Medical Care Act and the procedures and other acts necessary in relation thereto may be carried out before the item (v) Effective Date as well, in accordance with the provisions of that paragraph and Articles 6-18 and 6-19, paragraph (1) of the item (v) New Medical Care Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4261-83/art-7/par-1: 第五号新医療法第六条の十五第一項 → 医療法 第六条の十五第一項 (Article 6-15, paragraph (1)), art-6-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-15/par-1 - suppl-4261-83/art-7/par-1: 第五号新医療法第六条の十八 → 医療法 第六条の十八 (Article 6-18), art-6-18 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-18 - suppl-4261-83/art-7/par-1: 第六条の十九第一項 → 医療法 第六条の十九第一項 (Article 6-19, paragraph (1)), art-6-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-19/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 医療法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-6/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-20261019T151250-030, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19