# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（入院中の医療に関する書面の作成及び交付等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4181-84/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4181-84/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（入院中の医療に関する書面の作成及び交付等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Preparation and Delivery of Documents Related to Medical Care during Hospitalization caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4181-84/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4181-84/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/art-4 **第一項** 施行日において現に病院又は診療所に入院している患者については、新医療法第六条の四第一項、第二項及び第四項の規定は、適用しない。 suppl-4181-84/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4181-84/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/art-4/par-1 With regard to a patient who is actually hospitalized in a hospital or clinic on the Effective Date, the provisions of Article 6-4, paragraphs (1), (2) and (4) of the New Medical Care Act do not apply. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-84/art-4/par-1: 新医療法第六条の四第一項 → 医療法 第六条の四第一項 (Article 6-4, paragraph (1)), art-6-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-4/par-1 - suppl-4181-84/art-4/par-1: 第二項 → 医療法 第六条の四第二項 (Article 6-4, paragraph (2)), art-6-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-4/par-2 - suppl-4181-84/art-4/par-1: 第四項 → 医療法 第六条の四第四項 (Article 6-4, paragraph (4)), art-6-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-4/par-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第三十二条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4181-84/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/art-32/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-20261019T151250-024, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19