# 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) — address `suppl-4291-57/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-4291-57/art-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-5
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### 第五条
<sup>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</sup>

**第一項**  新医療法第十条の二の規定は、医療法第四条の二第一項に規定する特定機能病院の開設者が、施行日以後に、当該特定機能病院の管理者を選任する場合について適用する。
<sup>suppl-4291-57/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-57/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-57/art-5/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 10-2 of the New Medical Care Act apply to cases where the establisher of an advanced treatment hospital prescribed in Article 4-2, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act appoints the administrator of that advanced treatment hospital on or after the Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4291-57/art-5/par-1: 新医療法第十条の二 → 医療法 第十条の二 (Article 10-2), art-10-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-10-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-10-2
- suppl-4291-57/art-5/par-1: 医療法第四条の二第一項 → 医療法 第四条の二第一項 (Article 4-2, paragraph (1)), art-4-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-4-2/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites 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

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## 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