# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, 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 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（経過措置の原則） — address `suppl-4261-69/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4261-69/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4261-69/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（経過措置の原則） — Principles of Transitional Measures caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4261-69/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4261-69/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4261-69/art-5 **第一項** 行政庁の処分その他の行為又は不作為についての不服申立てであってこの法律の施行前にされた行政庁の処分その他の行為又はこの法律の施行前にされた申請に係る行政庁の不作為に係るものについては、この附則に特別の定めがある場合を除き、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4261-69/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4261-69/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4261-69/art-5/par-1 Unless otherwise specially provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern an appeal against a disposition or other act or an inaction of an administrative agency that concerns a disposition or other act of an administrative agency made before this Act comes into effect or an inaction of an administrative agency relating to an application filed before this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医師法 附則第六条第二項（訴訟に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4261-69/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4261-69/art-6/par-2 - 医師法 附則第九条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4261-69/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4261-69/art-9/par-1 - 医師法 附則第十条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4261-69/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4261-69/art-10/par-1 --- ## 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-20261009T095312-007, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09