# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第五条 (Article 5)

- 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: 第五条 (Article 5) — address `art-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-5
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### 第五条
<sup>art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  厚生労働省に医籍を備え、登録年月日、第七条第一項の規定による処分に関する事項その他の医師免許に関する事項を登録する。
<sup>art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-5/par-1</sup>
A register of medical practitioners is to be prepared at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in which the date of registration, matters regarding dispositions pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1), and other matters in relation to the medical practitioner's license are to be registered.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-5/par-1: 第七条第一項 → 医師法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7/par-1

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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