# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（医療法の一部改正に伴う準備行為） — address `suppl-5041-96/art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（医療法の一部改正に伴う準備行為） — Preparatory Acts Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Medical Care Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5041-96/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-16 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、施行日前においても、第八条の規定（附則第一条第一号に掲げる改正規定を除く。）による改正後の医療法（以下「新医療法」という。）第三十条の十二の二第一項に規定する研修を実施することができる。 suppl-5041-96/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-16/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may conduct, even before the Effective Date, the training prescribed in Article 30-12-2, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act after its amendment by the provisions of Article 8 (excluding the amending provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions) (hereinafter referred to as the "New Medical Care Act"). machine translation, not official **第二項** 新医療法第三十条の十二の二第一項の登録を受けようとする者は、施行日前においても、同条第二項の規定の例により、その申請を行うことができる。 suppl-5041-96/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-16/par-2 A person who intends to receive the registration under Article 30-12-2, paragraph (1) of the New Medical Care Act may file the application therefor even before the Effective Date, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5041-96/art-16/par-1: 附則第一条第一号 → 医療法 附則第一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-5041-96/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-5041-96/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/art-1/par-1/item-1 - suppl-5041-96/art-16/par-1: 第三十条の十二の二第一項 → 医療法 第三十条の十二の二第一項 (Article 30-12-2, paragraph (1)), art-30-12-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-12-2/par-1 - suppl-5041-96/art-16/par-2: 新医療法第三十条の十二の二第一項 → 医療法 第三十条の十二の二第一項 (Article 30-12-2, paragraph (1)), art-30-12-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-12-2/par-1 - suppl-5041-96/art-16/par-2: 同条第二項 → 医療法 第三十条の十二の二第二項 (Article 30-12-2, paragraph (2)), art-30-12-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-12-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-12-2/par-2 ## 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-5041-96/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-5041-96/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-20261019T151250-035, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-036, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19