# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第三条 (Article 3)

- 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: 第三条 (Article 3) — address `art-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-3
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### 第三条
<sup>art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  未成年者には、免許を与えない。
<sup>art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-3/par-1</sup>
A license is not granted to a minor.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-practitioners-act-20261009T095312-001, translated 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09