# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第八条 (Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Article 8) — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-8 **第一項** この章に規定するもののほか、免許の申請、医籍の登録、訂正及び抹消、免許証の交付、書換交付、再交付、返納及び提出並びに住所の届出に関して必要な事項は政令で、第七条第一項の処分、第七条の二第一項の再教育研修の実施、同条第二項の医籍の登録並びに同条第三項の再教育研修修了登録証の交付、書換交付及び再交付に関して必要な事項は厚生労働省令で定める。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-8/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in this Chapter, necessary matters related to application for license, registration, correction, and cancellation in the register of medical practitioners, the delivery, replacement, redelivery, return, and submission of license certificates, and notification of address are specified by Cabinet Order, and necessary matters related to the dispositions set forth in Article 7, paragraph (1), the implementation of reeducation training as set forth in Article 7-2, paragraph (1), registration in the register of medical practitioners as set forth in paragraph (2) of the same Article, and the delivery, replacement, and redelivery of the registration certificate for completion of reeducation training as set forth in paragraph (3) of the same Article are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-8/par-1: 第七条の二第一項 → 医師法 第七条の二第一項 (Article 7-2, paragraph (1)), art-7-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-2/par-1 - art-8/par-1: 同条第二項 → 医師法 第七条の二第二項 (Article 7-2, paragraph (2)), art-7-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-2/par-2 - art-8/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 - art-8/par-1: 同条第三項 → 医師法 第七条の二第三項 (Article 7-2, paragraph (3)), art-7-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7-2/par-3 --- ## 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