# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10) - 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: 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10) — address `suppl-5031-49/art-10` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5031-49/art-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5031-49/art-10 - 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. --- ### 第十条 suppl-5031-49/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5031-49/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5031-49/art-10 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、施行日前においても、新医療法第百二十条第一項、第百二十一条及び第百二十九条の規定の例により、新医療法第百二十条第一項の確認を行うことができる。 suppl-5031-49/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5031-49/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5031-49/art-10/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, even before the Effective Date, make the confirmation under Article 120, paragraph (1) of the New Medical Care Act, in accordance with the provisions of Article 120, paragraph (1), Article 121 and Article 129 of the New Medical Care Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5031-49/art-10/par-1: 新医療法第百二十条第一項 → 医療法 附則第百二十条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 120, paragraph (1)), suppl-3231-205/art-120/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-120/par-1 - suppl-5031-49/art-10/par-1: 第百二十一条 → 医療法 附則第百二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 121), suppl-3231-205/art-121 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-121 - suppl-5031-49/art-10/par-1: 第百二十九条 → 医療法 附則第百二十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 129), suppl-3231-205/art-129 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-129 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-129 ## 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五号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5031-49/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5031-49/art-1/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-034, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19