# 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-4301-79/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-4301-79/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4301-79/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. 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. --- ### 第六条 suppl-4301-79/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4301-79/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4301-79/art-6 **第一項** 第三条の規定による改正後の医療法第十条第三項の規定は、同項の厚生労働省令で定める病院の開設者が、附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の日（次条において「第二号施行日」という。）以後に、当該病院の管理者を選任する場合について適用する。 suppl-4301-79/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4301-79/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4301-79/art-6/par-1 The provisions of Article 10, paragraph (3) of the Medical Care Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply to cases where the establisher of a hospital specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under that paragraph appoints the administrator of that hospital on or after the day of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions (referred to as the "item (ii) Effective Date" in the following Article). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-79/art-6/par-1: 医療法第十条第三項 → 医療法 第十条第三項 (Article 10, paragraph (3)), art-10/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-10/par-3 - suppl-4301-79/art-6/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-4301-79/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4301-79/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4301-79/art-1/par-1/item-2 ## 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-4301-79/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4301-79/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-20261019T151250-033, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19