# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第六条 (Article 6) - Law: 医師法 (Medical Practitioners' Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百一号 - English title "Medical Practitioners' 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 (Article 6) — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/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 art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-6 **第一項** 免許は、医師国家試験に合格した者の申請により、医籍に登録することによつて行う。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-6/par-1 Licensing is carried out by registration of the license in the register of medical practitioners upon application by a person who has passed the national examination for medical practitioners. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、免許を与えたときは、医師免許証を交付する。 art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-6/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare delivers a certificate of the medical practitioner's license when the Minister has granted a license. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 医師は、厚生労働省令で定める二年ごとの年の十二月三十一日現在における氏名、住所（医業に従事する者については、更にその場所）その他厚生労働省令で定める事項を、当該年の翌年一月十五日までに、その住所地の都道府県知事を経由して厚生労働大臣に届け出なければならない。ただし、情報通信技術を活用した行政の推進等に関する法律（平成十四年法律第百五十一号）第六条第一項の規定により当該届出を同項に規定する電子情報処理組織を使用して行うときは、都道府県知事を経由することを要しない。 art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-6/par-3 A medical practitioner must notify their name, address (and the address of the place the person engages in medical practice), and any other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as of December 31 of every second year as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare through the prefectural governor for the residential location, by January 15 of the following year. However, when the notification is made, pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Advancement of Government Administration Processes That Utilize Information and Communications Technology (Act No. 151 of 2002), using the electronic data processing system prescribed in that paragraph, it is not required to go through the prefectural governor. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-6/par-3: 情報通信技術を活用した行政の推進等に関する法律（平成十四年法律第百五十一号）第六条第一項 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000151, 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医師法 第七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7/par-2 - 医師法 第三十条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-30-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-30-3/par-1 - 医師法 第三十三条の三第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-33-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-33-3/par-1/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医師法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000201/20260521_505AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-09 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Practitioners' Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3992/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-practitioners-act-20261009T095312-001, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09