# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第三十三条 (Article 33)

- 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33) — address `art-33`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-33
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-33
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### 第三十三条
<sup>art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-33</sup>

**第一項**  第三十条の規定に違反して故意若しくは重大な過失により事前に試験問題を漏らし、又は故意に不正の採点をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-33/par-1</sup>
A person who has violated the provisions of Article 30 and has divulged examination questions in advance either intentionally or through gross negligence, or who has intentionally and wrongfully scored examinations is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than five hundred thousand yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-33/par-1: 第三十条 → 医師法 第三十条 (Article 30), art-30 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-30

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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-20261009T095312-003, translated 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09