# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（医療法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5071-87/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-87/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-87/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（医療法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Medical Care Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5071-87/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-87/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-87/art-4 **第一項** 第一条の規定（附則第一条第二号に掲げる改正規定に限る。）による改正後の医療法第三十条の十八の六第三項から第十一項までの規定は、同号に掲げる規定の施行の日から六月を経過した日以降に同条第三項に規定する診療所を開設しようとする者について適用する。 suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 30-18-6, paragraphs (3) through (11) of the Medical Care Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (limited to the amending provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions) apply to a person who intends to establish a clinic prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article on or after the day on which six months have elapsed from the day of enforcement of the provisions set forth in that item. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5071-87/art-4/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-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-2 - suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1: 医療法第三十条の十八の六第三項から第十一項まで → 医療法 第三十条の十八の六第十項 (Article 30-18-6, paragraph (10)), art-30-18-6/par-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-18-6/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-6/par-10 - suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1: 医療法第三十条の十八の六第三項から第十一項まで → 医療法 第三十条の十八の六第十一項 (Article 30-18-6, paragraph (11)), art-30-18-6/par-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-18-6/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-6/par-11 - suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1: 医療法第三十条の十八の六第三項から第十一項まで → 医療法 第三十条の十八の六第三項 (Article 30-18-6, paragraph (3)), art-30-18-6/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-18-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-6/par-3 - suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1: 医療法第三十条の十八の六第三項から第十一項まで → 医療法 第三十条の十八の六第四項 (Article 30-18-6, paragraph (4)), art-30-18-6/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-18-6/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-6/par-4 - suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1: 医療法第三十条の十八の六第三項から第十一項まで → 医療法 第三十条の十八の六第五項 (Article 30-18-6, paragraph (5)), art-30-18-6/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-18-6/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-6/par-5 - suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1: 医療法第三十条の十八の六第三項から第十一項まで → 医療法 第三十条の十八の六第六項 (Article 30-18-6, paragraph (6)), art-30-18-6/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-18-6/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-6/par-6 - suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1: 医療法第三十条の十八の六第三項から第十一項まで → 医療法 第三十条の十八の六第七項 (Article 30-18-6, paragraph (7)), art-30-18-6/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-18-6/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-6/par-7 - suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1: 医療法第三十条の十八の六第三項から第十一項まで → 医療法 第三十条の十八の六第八項 (Article 30-18-6, paragraph (8)), art-30-18-6/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-18-6/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-6/par-8 - suppl-5071-87/art-4/par-1: 医療法第三十条の十八の六第三項から第十一項まで → 医療法 第三十条の十八の六第九項 (Article 30-18-6, paragraph (9)), art-30-18-6/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-30-18-6/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-6/par-9 ## 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二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-2 - 医療法 附則第二十四条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5071-87/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5071-87/art-24/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-20261019T151250-038, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 211 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19