# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

- 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3461-130`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-3461-130
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-3461-130
- 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.

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## 附　則 昭和四六年一二月三一日法律第一三〇号
<sup>suppl-3461-130 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-3461-130 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-3461-130</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、琉球諸島及び大東諸島に関する日本国とアメリカ合衆国との間の協定の効力発生の日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-3461-130/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-3461-130/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-3461-130/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect as of the date on which the Agreement between Japan and the United States of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands enters into force.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261009T095312-004, translated 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09