# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17) - 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: 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17) — address `suppl-5041-96/art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条 suppl-5041-96/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-17 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、施行日前においても、新医療法第三十条の十二の六の規定の例により、協定（同条第一項に規定する協定をいう。次項において同じ。）を締結することができる。 suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1 The prefectural governor may conclude, even before the Effective Date, an agreement (meaning the agreement prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article; the same applies in the following paragraph) in accordance with the provisions of Article 30-12-6 of the New Medical Care Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により締結された協定は、施行日において新医療法第三十条の十二の六第一項の規定により締結されたものとみなす。 suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-2 An agreement concluded pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been concluded on the Effective Date pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-12-6, paragraph (1) of the New Medical Care Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1: 新医療法第三十条の十二の六 → 医療法 第三十条の十二の六 (Article 30-12-6), art-30-12-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-12-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-12-6 - suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1: 同条第一項 → 医療法 第三十条の十二の六第一項 (Article 30-12-6, paragraph (1)), art-30-12-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-12-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-12-6/par-1 - suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1: 次項 → 医療法 附則第十七条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17, paragraph (2)), suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-2 - suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 附則第十七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17, paragraph (1)), suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1 - suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-2: 新医療法第三十条の十二の六第一項 → 医療法 第三十条の十二の六第一項 (Article 30-12-6, paragraph (1)), art-30-12-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-12-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-12-6/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-1 - 医療法 附則第十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-17/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-20261019T151250-036, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19