# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4291-57/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三条 suppl-4291-57/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-3 **第一項** 第二条の規定による改正後の医療法（以下「新医療法」という。）第六条の五第二項第四号若しくは第三項の厚生労働省令の制定の立案又は同項第八号若しくは第十二号から第十四号までに掲げる事項の案の作成については、厚生労働大臣は、この法律の施行の日（次条第二項及び附則第五条において「施行日」という。）前においても診療に関する学識経験者の団体の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1 With regard to the drafting of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 6-5, paragraph (2), item (iv) or paragraph (3) of the Medical Care Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Medical Care Act") and the preparation of drafts of the matters set forth in item (viii) or items (xii) through (xiv) of that paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may hear the opinions of groups of persons with the relevant knowledge and experience in medical practice even before the day this Act comes into effect (referred to as the "Effective Date" in Article 4, paragraph (2) and Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1: 第六条の五第二項第四号 → 医療法 第六条の五第二項第四号 (Article 6-5, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-6-5/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-5/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-5/par-2/item-4 - suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1: 第三項 → 医療法 第六条の五第三項 (Article 6-5, paragraph (3)), art-6-5/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-5/par-3 - suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1: 同項第八号 → 医療法 第六条の五第三項第九号 (Article 6-5, paragraph (3), item (ix)), art-6-5/par-3/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-5/par-3/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-5/par-3/item-9 - suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1: 第十二号から第十四号まで → 医療法 第六条の五第三項第十三号 (Article 6-5, paragraph (3), item (xiii)), art-6-5/par-3/item-13 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-5/par-3/item-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-5/par-3/item-13 - suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1: 第十二号から第十四号まで → 医療法 第六条の五第三項第十四号 (Article 6-5, paragraph (3), item (xiv)), art-6-5/par-3/item-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-5/par-3/item-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-5/par-3/item-14 - suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1: 第十二号から第十四号まで → 医療法 第六条の五第三項第十六号 (Article 6-5, paragraph (3), item (xvi)), art-6-5/par-3/item-16 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-5/par-3/item-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-5/par-3/item-16 - suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1: 次条第二項 → 医療法 附則第四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)), suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-2 - suppl-4291-57/art-3/par-1: 附則第五条 → 医療法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-4291-57/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-5 ## 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一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261019T151250-032, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19