# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3441-51` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-3441-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-3441-51 - 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. --- ## 附　則 昭和四四年六月二五日法律第五一号 suppl-3441-51 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-3441-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-3441-51 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から施行する。ただし、第一条中厚生省設置法第二十九条第一項の表薬剤師試験審議会の項を削る改正規定並びに第十条及び第十一条の規定は昭和四十四年九月一日から、第一条中厚生省設置法第二十九条第一項の表栄養審議会の項の改正規定、同表中医師試験研修審議会の項を改める改正規定並びに同表歯科医師試験審議会、保健婦助産婦看護婦審議会及び理学療法士作業療法士審議会の項を削る改正規定並びに同法第三十六条の七第三号にただし書を加える改正規定及び同法第三十六条の八に一号を加える改正規定並びに第二条から第九条までの規定は昭和四十四年十一月一日から施行する。 suppl-3441-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-3441-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-3441-51/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 1 amending the Ministry of Health and Welfare Establishment Act by deleting the entry for the Pharmacist Examination Council in the table of Article 29, paragraph (1) of that Act, and the provisions of Articles 10 and 11, come into effect as of September 1, 1969, and the provisions of Article 1 amending the entry for the Nutrition Council in the table of Article 29, paragraph (1) of the Ministry of Health and Welfare Establishment Act, the provisions amending the entry for the Medical Practitioner Examination and Training Council in that table, the provisions deleting the entries for the Dentist Examination Council, the Public Health Nurse, Midwife and Nurse Council, and the Physical Therapist and Occupational Therapist Council in that table, the provisions adding a proviso to Article 36-7, item (iii) of that Act, and the provisions adding one item to Article 36-8 of that Act, and the provisions of Articles 2 through 9, come into effect as of November 1, 1969. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261009T095312-004, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09