# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第五十条 (Article 50) - 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: 第五十条 (Article 50)（被保険者） — address `art-50` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-50 - 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. --- ### 第五十条（被保険者） — (insured) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-50 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、後期高齢者医療広域連合が行う後期高齢者医療の被保険者とする。 art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-50/par-1 A person who falls under any of the following items is to be an insured for medical care for the elderly provided by the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person who falls under any of the following items is to be a insured for medical care for the elderly provided by the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **一** 後期高齢者医療広域連合の区域内に住所を有する七十五歳以上の者 art-50/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-50/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-50/par-1/item-1 a person who is 75 years of age or older and has a domicile within the area of the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 後期高齢者医療広域連合の区域内に住所を有する六十五歳以上七十五歳未満の者であつて、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、政令で定める程度の障害の状態にある旨の当該後期高齢者医療広域連合の認定を受けたもの art-50/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-50/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-50/par-1/item-2 a person who is domiciled within the district of a Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older and is 65 years of age or older but under 75 years of age, who has been certified by the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, as being disabled to the extent specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 13 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 第七条第一項第十号の二（住民票の記載事項） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-7/par-1/item-10-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-7/par-1/item-10-2 - 健康保険法 第三条第一項第七号（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-3/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-3/par-1/item-7 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十一条第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十二条第一項第一号（資格取得の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-52/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-52/par-1/item-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十二条第一項第三号（資格取得の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-52/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-52/par-1/item-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十三条第一項（資格喪失の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-53/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十五条第一項（病院等に入院、入所又は入居中の被保険者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-55/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十五条第二項（病院等に入院、入所又は入居中の被保険者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-55/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十五条の二第一項（国民健康保険法第百十六条の二の規定の適用を受ける者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-55-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-55-2/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十五条の二第一項第二号（国民健康保険法第百十六条の二の規定の適用を受ける者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-55-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-55-2/par-1/item-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第十三条の三第一項（指定介護老人福祉施設に入所中の被保険者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-13-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-13-3/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第十三条の三第二項（指定介護老人福祉施設に入所中の被保険者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-13-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-13-3/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-2 --- ## 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 50, 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