# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第百十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 118) - 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: 第百十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 118) — address `suppl-3231-205/art-118` - 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-118 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-118 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百十八条 suppl-3231-205/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-118 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、当分の間、他の病院又は診療所に厚生労働省令で定めるところにより医師の派遣（医療提供体制の確保のために必要と認められるものに限る。）を行うことによつて当該派遣をされる医師の労働時間がやむを得ず長時間となる病院又は診療所（当該都道府県の区域に所在するものに限る。）を、当該病院又は診療所の開設者の申請により、連携型特定地域医療提供機関として指定することができる。 suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-1 The prefectural governor may, for the time being, upon application by the establisher of the hospital or clinic, designate as a collaborative specified regional medical care provision institution a hospital or clinic (limited to one situated in the area of the relevant prefecture) whose physicians' working hours unavoidably become long as a result of the staffing of physicians at another hospital or clinic (limited to staffing found necessary to ensure the medical care delivery system), pursuant to an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第百十三条第二項から第七項まで、第百十四条及び第百十五条の規定は前項の規定による連携型特定地域医療提供機関の指定について、第百十六条の規定は連携型特定地域医療提供機関の同項に規定する派遣をされる医師の業務の変更について、前条の規定は同項の規定による連携型特定地域医療提供機関の指定の取消しについて、それぞれ準用する。この場合において、第百十三条第二項中「同項に規定する業務に従事する医師」とあるのは「他の病院又は診療所に派遣される医師（第百十八条第一項に規定する派遣に係るものに限る。）」と、同条第七項中「この条」とあるのは「第百十八条」と、前条第一項第一号中「第百十三条第一項に規定する業務がなくなつた」とあるのは「次条第一項に規定する医師の派遣が行われなくなつた」と、同項第二号中「第百十三条第三項各号」とあるのは「次条第二項において準用する第百十三条第三項各号」と読み替えるものとする。 suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2 The provisions of Article 113, paragraphs (2) through (7), Article 114 and Article 115 of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to the designation of a collaborative specified regional medical care provision institution under the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 116 of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to a change in the operations of the physicians staffed under that paragraph by a collaborative specified regional medical care provision institution, and the provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the rescission of the designation of a collaborative specified regional medical care provision institution under that paragraph. In this case, the term "physicians engaged in the operations prescribed in that paragraph" in Article 113, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "physicians staffed at another hospital or clinic (limited to those pertaining to the staffing prescribed in Article 118, paragraph (1))", the term "this Article" in paragraph (7) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 118", the term "the operations prescribed in Article 113, paragraph (1) no longer exist" in item (i) of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "the staffing of physicians prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article is no longer carried out", and the term "each item of Article 113, paragraph (3)" in item (ii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "each item of Article 113, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the following Article". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十三条第二項から第七項まで → 医療法 附則第百十三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 113, paragraph (2)), suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-2 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十三条第二項から第七項まで → 医療法 附則第百十三条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 113, paragraph (3)), suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-3 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十三条第二項から第七項まで → 医療法 附則第百十三条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 113, paragraph (4)), suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-4 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十三条第二項から第七項まで → 医療法 附則第百十三条第五項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 113, paragraph (5)), suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-5 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十三条第二項から第七項まで → 医療法 附則第百十三条第六項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 113, paragraph (6)), suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-6 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十三条第二項から第七項まで → 医療法 附則第百十三条第七項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 113, paragraph (7)), suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-7 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十四条 → 医療法 附則第百十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 114), suppl-3231-205/art-114 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-114 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-114 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十五条 → 医療法 附則第百十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 115), suppl-3231-205/art-115 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-115 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-115 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 附則第百十八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 118, paragraph (1)), suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-1 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十六条 → 医療法 附則第百十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 116), suppl-3231-205/art-116 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-116 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 前条 → 医療法 附則第百十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 117), suppl-3231-205/art-117 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-117 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: この条 → 医療法 附則第百十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 113), suppl-3231-205/art-113 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-113 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-113 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十八条 → 医療法 附則第百十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 118), suppl-3231-205/art-118 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-118 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 前条第一項第一号 → 医療法 附則第百十七条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 117, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-3231-205/art-117/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-117/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-117/par-1/item-1 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 第百十三条第一項 → 医療法 附則第百十三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 113, paragraph (1)), suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-113/par-1 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 同項第二号 → 医療法 附則第百十七条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 117, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-3231-205/art-117/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-117/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-117/par-1/item-2 - suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2: 次条第二項 → 医療法 附則第百十八条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 118, paragraph (2)), suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第百十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-118/par-2 - 医療法 附則第百二十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-128/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百二十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-129/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-129/par-1 - 医療法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-5031-49/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5031-49/art-6/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-012, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-012, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19