# 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)（合併に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4271-74/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-4271-74/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4271-74/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（合併に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Mergers caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4271-74/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4271-74/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4271-74/art-7 **第一項** 社団たる医療法人については、第二号新法第六章第八節第一款の規定は、第二号施行日以後に合併について医療法人の総社員の同意があった場合について適用し、第二号施行日前に合併について医療法人の総社員の同意があった場合については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-1 With regard to a medical corporation as an association, the provisions of Chapter VI, Section 8, Subsection 1 of the item (ii) New Act apply to the case where the consent of all members of the medical corporation to a merger is given on or after the item (ii) Effective Date, and in the case where the consent of all members of the medical corporation to a merger was given before the item (ii) Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 財団たる医療法人については、第二号新法第六章第八節第一款の規定は、第二号施行日以後に合併について理事の三分の二以上の同意（寄附行為に別段の定めがある場合にあっては、その定めによる手続。以下この項において同じ。）があった場合について適用し、第二号施行日前に合併について理事の三分の二以上の同意があった場合については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-2 With regard to a medical corporation as a foundation, the provisions of Chapter VI, Section 8, Subsection 1 of the item (ii) New Act apply to the case where the consent of two-thirds or more of the directors to a merger (where the act of endowment provides otherwise, the procedure under that provision; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) is given on or after the item (ii) Effective Date, and in the case where the consent of two-thirds or more of the directors to a merger was given before the item (ii) Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-2: この項 → 医療法 附則第七条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (2)), suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-2 ## 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二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4271-74/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4271-74/art-1/par-1/item-2 - 医療法 附則第七条第二項（合併に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4271-74/art-7/par-2 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-031, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19