# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12) - 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: 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12)（老人保健施設の試行的実施） — address `suppl-3611-106/art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条（老人保健施設の試行的実施） — Trial Implementation of Health Care Facilities for the Elderly caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3611-106/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-12 **第一項** 厚生大臣が指定する者は、第四条の規定（附則第一条第一号に掲げる改正規定を除く。以下同じ。）の施行前に、第四条の規定による改正後の老人保健法第六条第四項に規定する老人保健施設を経営する事業を試行的に実施する限りにおいて、医療法の規定にかかわらず、同項の老人保健施設に相当する施設を開設することができる。 suppl-3611-106/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-12/par-1 Insofar as a person designated by the Minister of Health and Welfare trial-implements, before the enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 (excluding the provisions amending as set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter), a business of operating a health care facility for the elderly prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (4) of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly as amended by the provisions of Article 4, that person may, notwithstanding the provisions of the Medical Care Act, establish a facility equivalent to a health care facility for the elderly referred to in that paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3611-106/art-12/par-1: 附則第一条第一号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-3611-106/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-1/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 2 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 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第十三条第一項（国会に対する報告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-13/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-20261019T112331-008, 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