# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第六十八条 (Article 68) - 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: 第六十八条 (Article 68) — address `art-68` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-68 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-68 - 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. --- ### 第六十八条 art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-68 **第一項** 前条第一項の規定により一部負担金を支払う場合においては、当該一部負担金の額に五円未満の端数があるときは、これを切り捨て、五円以上十円未満の端数があるときは、これを十円に切り上げるものとする。 art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-68/par-1 In the case of making co-payment pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if the amount of co-payment includes a fraction less than five yen, the fraction is to be rounded down, and if the amount includes a fraction not less than five yen but less than ten yen, the fraction is to be rounded up to the nearest ten yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-68/par-1: 前条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第六十七条第一項 (Article 67, paragraph (1)), art-67/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-67/par-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 第六十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-69/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-69/par-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十六条第七項（保険外併用療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-76/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-76/par-7 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十八条第九項（訪問看護療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-78/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-78/par-9 --- ## 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 - 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