# 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) — address `suppl-4261-83/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-4261-83/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/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 suppl-4261-83/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-6 **第一項** 第五号新医療法第六条の十及び第六条の十一の規定は、附則第一条第五号に掲げる規定の施行の日（次条及び附則第二十八条において「第五号施行日」という。）以後の死亡又は死産について適用する。 suppl-4261-83/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-6/par-1 The provisions of Articles 6-10 and 6-11 of the item (v) New Medical Care Act apply to a death or stillbirth that occurs on or after the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (v) of the Supplementary Provisions (referred to as the "item (v) Effective Date" in the following Article and Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4261-83/art-6/par-1: 第五号新医療法第六条の十 → 医療法 第六条の十 (Article 6-10), art-6-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-10 - suppl-4261-83/art-6/par-1: 第六条の十一 → 医療法 第六条の十一 (Article 6-11), art-6-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-11 - suppl-4261-83/art-6/par-1: 附則第一条第五号 → 医療法 附則第一条第一項第五号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (v)), suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-5 - suppl-4261-83/art-6/par-1: 次条 → 医療法 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-4261-83/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-7 ## 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五号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-030, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19