# 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-4101-114` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4101-114 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4101-114 - 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 平成一〇年一〇月二日法律第一一四号 suppl-4101-114 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4101-114 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4101-114 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4101-114/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4101-114/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4101-114/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成十一年四月一日から施行する。 suppl-4101-114/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4101-114/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4101-114/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of April 1, 1999. machine translation, not official ### 第二十一条（医療法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Medical Care Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4101-114/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4101-114/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4101-114/art-21 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に前条の規定による改正前の医療法第七条第二項に規定する伝染病床であるものについては、前条の規定による改正後の医療法第七条第二項に規定する感染症病床とみなす。 suppl-4101-114/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4101-114/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4101-114/art-21/par-1 A bed that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is a contagious disease hospital bed prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Medical Care Act before the revision by the provisions of the preceding Article is deemed to be an infectious disease hospital bed prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Medical Care Act after the revision by the provisions of the preceding Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4101-114/art-21/par-1: 医療法第七条第二項 → 医療法 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/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-20261019T151250-019, 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-20261019T151250-019, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19