# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（嘱託する病院又は診療所に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4181-84/art-6` - 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-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（嘱託する病院又は診療所に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Contract Hospitals or Clinics caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4181-84/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4181-84/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/art-6 **第一項** 施行日において現に開設している助産所の開設者に対する新医療法第十九条の規定の適用については、施行日から一年を経過する日までの間は、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4181-84/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4181-84/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4181-84/art-6/par-1 With regard to the application of Article 19 of the New Medical Care Act to an establisher of a birthing center that is already established as of the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern until the day on which one year elapses from the Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-84/art-6/par-1: 新医療法第十九条 → 医療法 第十九条 (Article 19), art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-19 ## 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-20261019T151250-025, 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-20261019T151250-025, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19