# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第三十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 31) - 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: 第三十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 31)（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4181-84/art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4181-84/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4181-84/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4181-84/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4181-84/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4181-84/art-31 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条各号に掲げる規定については、当該各規定）の施行前にした行為並びにこの附則の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為及びこの附則の規定によりなお効力を有することとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4181-84/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4181-84/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4181-84/art-31/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those respective provisions) comes into effect, to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions remain in effect pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-84/art-31/par-1: 附則第一条 → 医師法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-4181-84/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4181-84/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4181-84/art-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-4181-84/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4181-84/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 医師法 附則第三十二条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-4181-84/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-4181-84/art-32/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-20261009T095312-007, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09