# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5011-37/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5011-37/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5011-37/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5011-37/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5011-37/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5011-37/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5011-37/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5011-37/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5011-37/art-3/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医師法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5011-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5011-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 医師法 附則第二条第一項（行政庁の行為等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5011-37/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5011-37/art-2/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-20261009T095312-008, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09