# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12) - 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: 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12)（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4291-57/art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4291-57/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-12 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条第二号及び第三号に掲げる規定にあっては、当該各規定）の施行前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-4291-57/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-12/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the enforcement of this Act (for the provisions set forth in Article 1, items (ii) and (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions, those respective provisions), the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-57/art-12/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 医療法 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4291-57/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-1/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4291-57/art-12/par-1: 第三号 → 医療法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4291-57/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-1/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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-4291-57/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261019T151250-032, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19