# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) — address `suppl-4291-57/art-6` - 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-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-6 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六条 suppl-4291-57/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-6 **第一項** 新医療法第十五条の二の規定は、附則第一条第三号に掲げる規定の施行の日（次項において「第三号施行日」という。）以後に行う新医療法第十五条の二に規定する検体検査（同項において「新検体検査」という。）の業務について適用する。 suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-1 The provisions of Article 15-2 of the New Medical Care Act apply to the operation of specimen testing prescribed in Article 15-2 of the New Medical Care Act (referred to as "new specimen testing" in the following paragraph) conducted on or after the day of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions (referred to as the "item (iii) Effective Date" in the following paragraph). machine translation, not official **第二項** 新医療法第十五条の三第一項の規定は、第三号施行日以後に委託する新検体検査の業務について適用し、第三号施行日前に旧医療法第十五条の二の規定により委託された人体から排出され、又は採取された検体の微生物学的検査、血清学的検査、血液学的検査、病理学的検査、寄生虫学的検査又は生化学的検査の業務については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 The provisions of Article 15-3, paragraph (1) of the New Medical Care Act apply to the operation of new specimen testing entrusted on or after the item (iii) Effective Date, and with regard to the operation of microbiological examination, serological examination, hematological examination, pathological examination, parasitological examination or biochemical examination of specimens discharged or collected from the human body that was entrusted before the item (iii) Effective Date pursuant to the provisions of Article 15-2 of the Former Medical Care Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-1: 新医療法第十五条の二 → 医療法 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2), art-15-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-2 - suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-1: 附則第一条第三号 → 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 - suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-1: 次項 → 医療法 附則第六条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6, paragraph (2)), suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 - suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2: 新医療法第十五条の三第一項 → 医療法 第十五条の三第一項 (Article 15-3, paragraph (1)), art-15-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-15-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-15-3/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — 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 - 医療法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-1 - 医療法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/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-20261019T151250-032, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19