# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十六条 (Article 36) - 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: 第三十六条 (Article 36)（前期高齢者納付金等の徴収及び納付義務） — address `art-36` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-36 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条（前期高齢者納付金等の徴収及び納付義務） — (Collection and Payment Obligation of Young-Old Payments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-36 **第一項** 機構は、第百三十九条第一項第一号に掲げる業務及び当該業務に関する事務の処理に要する費用に充てるため、年度ごとに、保険者から、前期高齢者納付金及び前期高齢者関係事務費拠出金（以下「前期高齢者納付金等」という。）を徴収する。 art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-36/par-1 The Organization collects young-old payments and contributions for administrative expenses related to the young-old (hereinafter referred to as "young-old payments, etc.") from Insurers each fiscal year in order to cover the expenses required for the services listed in Article 139, paragraph (1), item (i) and the handling of affairs relating to the services. machine translation, not official **第二項** 保険者は、前期高齢者納付金等を納付する義務を負う。 art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-36/par-2 An insurer is liable to pay young-old payments. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-36/par-1: 第百三十九条第一項第一号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十九条第一項第一号 (Article 139, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-139/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-139/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-139/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十二条第二項（前期高齢者交付金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-32/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十七条第一項（前期高齢者納付金の額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-37/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第四十条第一項（前期高齢者関係事務費拠出金の額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-40/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T112331-001, translated 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