# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13) - 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: 第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13)（施行前の準備） — address `suppl-5071-37/art-13` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-37/art-13 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-37/art-13 - 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. --- ### 第十三条（施行前の準備） — Preparations before Enforcement caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5071-37/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-37/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-37/art-13 **第一項** suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-1 **第十一項** 第四条の規定による改正後の医療法（以下この項において「新医療法」という。）第三十七条第四項に規定する供給確保医薬品又は新医療法第三十八条第一項に規定する重要供給確保医薬品の指定については、厚生労働大臣は、この法律の施行の日前においても、厚生科学審議会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11 With regard to the designation of a supply security pharmaceutical prescribed in Article 37, paragraph (4) of the Medical Care Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4 (referred to as the "New Medical Care Act" in this paragraph) or an important supply security pharmaceutical prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) of the New Medical Care Act, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may hear the opinion of the Health Sciences Council even before the day this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11: この項 → 医療法 附則第十三条第十一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13, paragraph (11)), suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11 - suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11: 第三十七条第四項 → 医療法 第三十七条第四項 (Article 37, paragraph (4)), art-37/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-37/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-37/par-4 - suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11: 新医療法第三十八条第一項 → 医療法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-38/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 医療法 附則第十三条第十一項（施行前の準備） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-37/art-13/par-11 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-037, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19