# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（検討） — address `suppl-5031-49/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5031-49/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5031-49/art-2
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### 第二条（検討） — Review
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<sup>suppl-5031-49/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5031-49/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5031-49/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、この法律の施行後五年を目途として、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律（以下この条において「改正後の各法律」という。）の施行の状況等を勘案し、必要があると認めるときは、改正後の各法律の規定について検討を加え、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。
<sup>suppl-5031-49/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5031-49/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5031-49/art-2/par-1</sup>
The government is to, with a target of five years after this Act comes into effect, taking into account the status of the enforcement, etc. of the respective Acts as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "the respective Acts as amended"), when it finds it necessary, review the provisions of the respective Acts as amended, and take the required measures based on the results of that review.
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## Cites
- suppl-5031-49/art-2/par-1: この条 → 医師法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-5031-49/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5031-49/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5031-49/art-2

## 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-5031-49/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5031-49/art-1/par-1/item-1
- 医師法 附則第二条第一項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/suppl-5031-49/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/suppl-5031-49/art-2/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-20261009T095312-008, translated 2026-10-09
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-practitioners-act-20261009T095312-009, translated 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09
