# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3601-90` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-90 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-90 - 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. --- ## 附　則 昭和六〇年七月一二日法律第九〇号 suppl-3601-90 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-90 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-90 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3601-90/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-90/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-90/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、それぞれ当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-3601-90/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-90/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-90/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items: machine translation, not official **一から四まで** 略 suppl-3601-90/art-1/par-1/item-1-to-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-90/art-1/par-1/item-1-to-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-90/art-1/par-1/item-1-to-4 Omitted machine translation, not official **五** 第三条、第七条及び第十一条の規定、第二十四条の規定（民生委員法第十九条の改正規定を除く。附則第七条において同じ。）、第二十五条の規定（社会福祉事業法第十七条及び第二十一条の改正規定を除く。附則第七条において同じ。）、第二十八条の規定（児童福祉法第三十五条、第五十六条の二、第五十八条及び第五十八条の二の改正規定を除く。）並びに附則第七条、第十二条から第十四条まで及び第十七条の規定　公布の日から起算して六月を経過した日 suppl-3601-90/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3601-90/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3601-90/art-1/par-1/item-5 the provisions of Articles 3, 7 and 11, the provisions of Article 24 (excluding the provision amending Article 19 of the Commissioned Welfare Volunteers Act; the same applies in Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions), the provisions of Article 25 (excluding the provisions amending Articles 17 and 21 of the Social Welfare Services Act; the same applies in Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions), the provisions of Article 28 (excluding the provisions amending Articles 35, 56-2, 58 and 58-2 of the Child Welfare Act), and the provisions of Article 7, Articles 12 through 14 and Article 17 of the Supplementary Provisions: the day on which six months have elapsed from the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261019T151250-016, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19