# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（医療法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4261-83/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（医療法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Medical Care Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4261-83/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-5 **第一項** 附則第一条第三号に掲げる規定の施行の際現に臨床研究中核病院という名称を使用している者については、第三号新医療法第四条の三第三項の規定は、同号に掲げる規定の施行後六月間は、適用しない。 suppl-4261-83/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-5/par-1 With regard to a person who is actually using the name "core hospital for clinical research" when the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, the provisions of Article 4-3, paragraph (3) of the item (iii) New Medical Care Act do not apply for six months after the provisions set forth in that item come into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4261-83/art-5/par-1: 附則第一条第三号 → 医療法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-029, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19