# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第六条 (Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（医療の担い手等の責務） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（医療の担い手等の責務） — (Responsibilities of Medical Care Professionals) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-6 **第一項** 医師、歯科医師、薬剤師、看護師その他の医療の担い手並びに医療法第一条の二第二項に規定する医療提供施設の開設者及び管理者は、前三条に規定する各般の措置、施策及び事業に協力しなければならない。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-6/par-1 Physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and other medical care professionals, as well as the establishers and administrators of medical institutions prescribed in Article 1-2, paragraph (2) of the Medical Care Act, must cooperate with the various measures, policies, and undertakings prescribed in the preceding three Articles. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and other medical care professionals, as well as the organizers and administrators of medical institutions prescribed in Article 1-2, paragraph (2) of the Medical Care Act, must cooperate with the various measures, policies, and undertakings prescribed in the preceding three Articles." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## Cites - art-6/par-1: 医療法第一条の二第二項 → 医療法 第一条の二第二項 (Article 1-2, paragraph (2)), art-1-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-1-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-2/par-2 - art-6/par-1: 前三条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三条 (Article 3), art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-3 - art-6/par-1: 前三条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-4 - art-6/par-1: 前三条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-5 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, 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 6, 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