# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27)

- Law: 医師法 (Medical Practitioners' Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百一号
- English title "Medical Practitioners' 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27) — address `art-27`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-27
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-27
- 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.

---

### 第二十七条
<sup>art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-27</sup>

**第一項**  医師国家試験及び医師国家試験予備試験に関する事務をつかさどらせるため、厚生労働省に医師試験委員を置く。
<sup>art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-27/par-1</sup>
A medical practitioners' examiner is to be assigned at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to administer affairs related to the national examination for medical practitioners and the national preliminary examination for medical practitioners.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第二項**  医師試験委員に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。
<sup>art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-27/par-2</sup>
Necessary matters related to the medical practitioners' examiner are specified by Cabinet Order.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

---

## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医師法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000201/20260521_505AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-09
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Practitioners' Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3992/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09