# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十一条 (Article 31) - Law: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 (Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People), 昭和五十七年法律第八十号 - English title "Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People": 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 (Article 31)（健康診査等指針との調和） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十一条（健康診査等指針との調和） — (Harmonization with the Health Checkup Guidelines) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-31 **第一項** 第十八条第一項、第二十条、第二十一条第一項、第二十二条から第二十五条まで、第二十六条第二項、第二十七条第三項及び第四項並びに第二十八条に規定する厚生労働省令は、健康増進法第九条第一項に規定する健康診査等指針と調和が保たれたものでなければならない。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-31/par-1 An Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (1), Article 20, Article 21, paragraph (1), Articles 22 through 25, Article 26, paragraph (2), Article 27, paragraphs (3) and (4), and Article 28 must be in harmony with the health checkup guidelines prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Health Promotion Act. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (1), Article 20, Article 21, paragraph (1), Articles 22 through 25, Article 26, paragraph (2), Article 27, paragraphs (3) and (4), and Article 28 must be in harmony with the health checkup guidelines prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Health Promotion Act." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## Cites - art-31/par-1: 第十八条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-18/par-1 - art-31/par-1: 第二十条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-20 - art-31/par-1: 第二十一条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十一条第一項 (Article 21, paragraph (1)), art-21/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-21/par-1 - art-31/par-1: 第二十二条から第二十五条まで → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-22 - art-31/par-1: 第二十二条から第二十五条まで → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十三条 (Article 23), art-23 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-23 - art-31/par-1: 第二十二条から第二十五条まで → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十四条 (Article 24), art-24 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-24 - art-31/par-1: 第二十二条から第二十五条まで → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十五条 (Article 25), art-25 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-25 - art-31/par-1: 第二十六条第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十六条第二項 (Article 26, paragraph (2)), art-26/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-26/par-2 - art-31/par-1: 第二十七条第三項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十七条第三項 (Article 27, paragraph (3)), art-27/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-27/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-27/par-3 - art-31/par-1: 第四項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十七条第四項 (Article 27, paragraph (4)), art-27/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-27/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-27/par-4 - art-31/par-1: 第二十八条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十八条 (Article 28), art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-28 - art-31/par-1: 健康増進法第九条第一項 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000103, 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — not held in this collection --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律, written 2026-10-19 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/357AC0000000080/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律), Article 31, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19