# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

- 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（検討） — address `suppl-5011-37/art-7`
- 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-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5011-37/art-7
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### 第七条（検討） — Review
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<sup>suppl-5011-37/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5011-37/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5011-37/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、会社法（平成十七年法律第八十六号）及び一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律（平成十八年法律第四十八号）における法人の役員の資格を成年被後見人又は被保佐人であることを理由に制限する旨の規定について、この法律の公布後一年以内を目途として検討を加え、その結果に基づき、当該規定の削除その他の必要な法制上の措置を講ずるものとする。
<sup>suppl-5011-37/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5011-37/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5011-37/art-7/par-1</sup>
The government is to review the provisions of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005) and the Act on General Incorporated Associations and General Incorporated Foundations (Act No. 48 of 2006) that restrict the qualifications of officers of corporations on the grounds of their being adult wards or persons under curatorship, aiming to do so within one year after the promulgation of this Act, and, based on the results of that review, is to take necessary legislative measures, including the deletion of those provisions.
<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-20261009T095312-008, translated 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09
