# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- 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
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- Provision: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（臨床研修修了医師の登録に係る経過措置） — address `suppl-4121-141/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4121-141/art-8
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### 第八条（臨床研修修了医師の登録に係る経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Registration of Medical Practitioners Who Have Completed Clinical Training
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4121-141/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4121-141/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4121-141/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  附則第一条第一号に掲げる規定の施行の際現に医師免許を受けている者及び当該規定の施行前に医師免許の申請を行った者であって当該規定の施行後に医師免許を受けたものは、第二条の規定による改正後の医療法及び第四条の規定による改正後の医師法の適用については、同法第十六条の四第一項の規定による登録を受けた者とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4121-141/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4121-141/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4121-141/art-8/par-1</sup>
A person who currently holds a medical practitioner's license at the time of the enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions, and a person who applied for a medical practitioner's license before the enforcement of those provisions and received the license after their enforcement, are deemed, for the purpose of the application of the Medical Care Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 and the Medical Practitioners' Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4, to be persons registered under Article 16-4, paragraph (1) of that Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4121-141/art-8/par-1: 同法第十六条の四第一項 → 医師法 第十六条の六第一項 (Article 16-6, paragraph (1)), art-16-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-6/par-1
- suppl-4121-141/art-8/par-1: 附則第一条第一号 → 医師法 附則第一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-4121-141/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4121-141/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4121-141/art-1/par-1/item-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 医師法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4121-141/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4121-141/art-1/par-1/item-1
- 医師法 附則第十五条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4121-141/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4121-141/art-15/par-1

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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-20261009T095312-006, translated 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09
