# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第二百五十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 250)

- 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: 第二百五十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 250)（検討） — address `suppl-4111-87/art-250`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4111-87/art-250
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4111-87/art-250
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### 第二百五十条（検討） — Review
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<sup>suppl-4111-87/art-250 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4111-87/art-250 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4111-87/art-250</sup>

**第一項**  新地方自治法第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務については、できる限り新たに設けることのないようにするとともに、新地方自治法別表第一に掲げるもの及び新地方自治法に基づく政令に示すものについては、地方分権を推進する観点から検討を加え、適宜、適切な見直しを行うものとする。
<sup>suppl-4111-87/art-250/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4111-87/art-250/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4111-87/art-250/par-1</sup>
With regard to Type 1 statutory entrusted affairs prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the new Local Autonomy Act, care is to be taken to avoid establishing new ones as far as possible, and those set forth in Appended Table 1 of the new Local Autonomy Act and those indicated in Cabinet Orders based on the new Local Autonomy Act are to be reviewed from the standpoint of promoting decentralization and appropriately revised as needed.
<sup>machine translation, not official</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-20261009T095312-005, translated 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09