# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第百五十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 159) - 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: 第百五十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 159)（国等の事務） — address `suppl-4111-87/art-159` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4111-87/art-159 - 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. --- ### 第百五十九条（国等の事務） — Affairs of the State, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4111-87/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4111-87/art-159 **第一項** この法律による改正前のそれぞれの法律に規定するもののほか、この法律の施行前において、地方公共団体の機関が法律又はこれに基づく政令により管理し又は執行する国、他の地方公共団体その他公共団体の事務（附則第百六十一条において「国等の事務」という。）は、この法律の施行後は、地方公共団体が法律又はこれに基づく政令により当該地方公共団体の事務として処理するものとする。 suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in the respective Acts prior to amendment by this Act, the affairs of the State, other local governments or other public entities that, before this Act comes into effect, an organ of a local government managed or executed pursuant to an Act or a Cabinet Order based on it (referred to as "affairs of the State, etc." in Article 161 of the Supplementary Provisions) are, after this Act comes into effect, to be handled by the local government as affairs of that local government pursuant to an Act or a Cabinet Order based on it. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1: 附則第百六十一条 → 医師法 附則第百六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161), suppl-4111-87/art-161 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4111-87/art-161 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医師法 附則第百六十条第一項（処分、申請等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4111-87/art-160/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4111-87/art-160/par-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-20261009T095312-005, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09