# 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) — address `suppl-4291-57/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-4291-57/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/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 suppl-4291-57/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に第二条の規定による改正前の医療法（次項及び附則第六条第二項において「旧医療法」という。）第六条の六第一項の規定によりされている許可は、新医療法第六条の六第一項の許可とみなす。 suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-1 Permission that, at the time this Act comes into effect, has been granted pursuant to the provisions of Article 6-6, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (referred to as the "Former Medical Care Act" in the following paragraph and Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) is deemed to be permission under Article 6-6, paragraph (1) of the New Medical Care Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 施行日前にされた旧医療法第六条の八第二項の規定による広告の中止又はその内容の是正の命令（当該中止又は是正の期限が施行日以後に到来するものに限る。）は、新医療法第六条の八第二項の規定による同項に規定する広告の中止又はその内容の是正の命令とみなす。 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 An order to cease an advertisement or to correct its content pursuant to the provisions of Article 6-8, paragraph (2) of the Former Medical Care Act that was issued before the Effective Date (limited to one for which the time limit for the cessation or correction falls on or after the Effective Date) is deemed to be an order to cease the advertisement prescribed in that paragraph or to correct its content pursuant to the provisions of Article 6-8, paragraph (2) of the New Medical Care Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-1: 次項 → 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-4/par-1: 附則第六条第二項 → 医療法 附則第六条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6, paragraph (2)), suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-6/par-2 - suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-1: 新医療法第六条の六第一項 → 医療法 第六条の六第一項 (Article 6-6, paragraph (1)), art-6-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-6/par-1 - suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-2: 新医療法第六条の八第二項 → 医療法 第六条の八第二項 (Article 6-8, paragraph (2)), art-6-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-6-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-8/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第三条第一項 — 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 - 医療法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-4/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-20261019T151250-032, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19