# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4061-84/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4061-84/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4061-84/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4061-84/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4061-84/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4061-84/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から施行する。ただし、第三条中母子保健法第十八条の改正規定（「又は保健所を設置する市」を「、保健所を設置する市又は特別区」に改める部分を除く。）は平成七年一月一日から、第二条、第四条、第五条、第七条、第九条、第十一条、第十三条、第十五条、第十七条、第十八条及び第二十条の規定並びに附則第三条から第十一条まで、附則第二十三条から第三十七条まで及び附則第三十九条の規定は平成九年四月一日から施行する。 suppl-4061-84/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4061-84/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4061-84/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending Article 18 of the Maternal and Child Health Act in Article 3 (excluding the portion replacing "or a city with a public health center" with ", a city with a public health center, or a special ward") come into effect on January 1, 1995, and the provisions of Article 2, Article 4, Article 5, Article 7, Article 9, Article 11, Article 13, Article 15, Article 17, Article 18 and Article 20, and the provisions of Articles 3 through 11 of the Supplementary Provisions, Articles 23 through 37 of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 39 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on April 1, 1997. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第十三条第一項（その他の処分、申請等に係る経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4061-84/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4061-84/art-13/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-20261019T151250-018, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 211 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19