# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第六章 (Chapter 6)

- 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: 第六章 (Chapter 6) — address `ch-6`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/ch-6
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/ch-6
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## 第六章　医師試験委員 — Chapter VI Medical Practitioners' Examiner
<sup>heading: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>ch-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/ch-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/ch-6</sup>

### 第二十五条から第二十六条まで  〔削除 / repealed〕
<sup>art-25-to-26 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-25-to-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-25-to-26</sup>

**第一項**  削除
<sup>art-25-to-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-25-to-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-25-to-26/par-1</sup>
<sup>no English for this paragraph</sup>

### 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>

### 第二十八条から第二十九条まで  〔削除 / repealed〕
<sup>art-28-to-29 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-28-to-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-28-to-29</sup>

**第一項**  削除
<sup>art-28-to-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-28-to-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-28-to-29/par-1</sup>
<sup>no English for this paragraph</sup>

### 第三十条
<sup>art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-30</sup>

**第一項**  医師試験委員その他医師国家試験又は医師国家試験予備試験に関する事務をつかさどる者は、その事務の施行に当たつて厳正を保持し、不正の行為のないようにしなければならない。
<sup>art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-30/par-1</sup>
The medical practitioners' examiner and other persons in charge of affairs related to the national examination for medical practitioners and the national preliminary examination for medical practitioners must preserve impartiality and not act unfairly in implementing those affairs.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</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-20261009T095312-003, translated 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09