# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第百三十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 131) - 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: 第百三十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 131) — address `suppl-3231-205/art-131` - 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-131 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131 - 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. --- ### 第百三十一条 suppl-3231-205/art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131 **第一項** 医療機関勤務環境評価センターは、次に掲げる業務を行うものとする。 suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1 A medical institution work environment evaluation center is to carry out the following operations: machine translation, not official **一** 病院又は診療所の管理者からの求めに応じ、当該病院又は診療所に勤務する医師の労働時間の短縮のための取組の状況その他厚生労働省令で定める事項について評価を行うこと。 suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-1 conducting an evaluation, at the request of the administrator of a hospital or clinic, of the status of initiatives for shortening the working hours of physicians working at the hospital or clinic and other matters specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; machine translation, not official **二** 病院又は診療所における医師の労働時間の短縮のための取組について、病院又は診療所の管理者に対し、必要な助言及び指導を行うこと。 suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-2 providing the necessary advice and guidance to the administrator of a hospital or clinic concerning initiatives for shortening the working hours of physicians at the hospital or clinic; and machine translation, not official **三** 前二号に掲げるもののほか、医師による良質かつ適切な医療の効率的な提供に資するよう、病院又は診療所における医師の労働時間の短縮を促進するための業務を行うこと。 suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-3 in addition to what is listed in the preceding two items, conducting operations for promoting the shortening of the working hours of physicians at hospitals or clinics so as to contribute to the efficient provision of high-quality and appropriate medical care by physicians. machine translation, not official **第二項** 医療機関勤務環境評価センターは、前項各号に掲げる業務を行うに当たつては、第百五条の指針を勘案しなければならない。 suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-2 · 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 In carrying out the operations listed in each item of the preceding paragraph, a medical institution work environment evaluation center must take into account the guidelines referred to in Article 105 of the Supplementary Provisions. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 医療法 附則第百三十一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 131, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-1 - suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 医療法 附則第百三十一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 131, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-2 - suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 附則第百三十一条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 131, paragraph (1)), suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1 - suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-2: 第百五条 → 医療法 附則第百五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 105), 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 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第百十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-116/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百三十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-130/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-130/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百三十一条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-131/par-1/item-3 - 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 - 医療法 附則第百三十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-132/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-132/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百三十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-133/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百三十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-135/par-1 - 医療法 附則第百四十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-146/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-146/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-20261019T151250-013, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-014, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19