# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-5081-31/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5081-31/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5081-31/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5081-31/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、令和九年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-5081-31/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5081-31/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2027; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items. machine translation, not official **一** 第一条中健康保険法第七条の二の次に一条を加える改正規定、同法第七条の二十九の次に一条を加える改正規定並びに同法第百六十条第三項第三号及び第五項並びに第百六十条の三の改正規定並びに同法附則第五条の三の改正規定及び同法附則第五条の四を附則第五条の九とし、附則第五条の三の次に五条を加える改正規定、第三条中船員保険法第七十六条第六項の改正規定並びに第八条中高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第二十条ただし書及び第二十二条の改正規定並びに次条から附則第十条まで並びに附則第十六条及び第三十八条の規定　公布の日 suppl-5081-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5081-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provision, in Article 1, adding one Article after Article 7-2 of the Health Insurance Act, the provision adding one Article after Article 7-29 of that Act, the provisions amending Article 160, paragraph (3), item (iii) and paragraph (5), and Article 160-3 of that Act, the provision amending Article 5-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and the provision making Article 5-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act Article 5-9 and adding five Articles after Article 5-3 of the Supplementary Provisions; the provision, in Article 3, amending Article 76, paragraph (6) of the Mariners Insurance Act; the provisions, in Article 8, amending the proviso to Article 20 and Article 22 of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People; and the provisions of the following Article through Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions and Articles 16 and 38 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation; machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5081-31/art-1/par-1/item-1: 次条から附則第十条まで → 医療法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-5081-31/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5081-31/art-2 - suppl-5081-31/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第三十八条 → 医療法 附則第三十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 38), suppl-5081-31/art-38 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5081-31/art-38 --- ## 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