# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第百五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 105) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care 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: 第百五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 105) — address `suppl-3231-205/art-105` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-105 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-105 - 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. --- ### 第百五条 suppl-3231-205/art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-105 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、労働が長時間にわたる医師の労働時間を短縮し、及びその健康を確保することにより、医師が良質かつ適切な医療を行うことができるよう、当分の間において国及び都道府県並びに病院又は診療所の管理者その他の関係者が適切に対処するために必要な指針を定め、これを公表するものとする。 suppl-3231-205/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-105/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to establish and publicize the guidelines necessary for the national government, prefectures, administrators of hospitals or clinics and other related parties to deal appropriately for the time being with the matter so that physicians can provide high-quality and appropriate medical care by reducing the working hours of physicians whose work extends over long hours and ensuring their health. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第百六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-106/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-106/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-109/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百三十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-011, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19