# 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)（老人訪問看護療養費の支給等に関する規定の施行前の準備） — address `suppl-4031-89/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-4031-89/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/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（老人訪問看護療養費の支給等に関する規定の施行前の準備） — Preparations before Enforcement of Provisions on Payment of Medical Expenses for Home-Nursing for the Elderly, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4031-89/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-12 **第一項** 厚生大臣は、新老健法第四十六条の十七の五第一項の厚生省令を定めようとするとき、及び同条第二項に規定する指定老人訪問看護の事業の運営に関する基準（指定老人訪問看護の取扱いに関する部分を除く。）を定めようとするときは、附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の日前においても老人保健審議会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-4031-89/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-12/par-1 When the Minister of Health and Welfare intends to specify the Ministry of Health and Welfare Order referred to in Article 46-17-5, paragraph (1) of the New Elderly Health Act, and when the Minister intends to specify the standards for the operation of the business of designated home-nursing for the elderly prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article (excluding the part concerning the handling of designated home-nursing for the elderly), the Minister may hear the opinion of the Elderly Health Council even before the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生大臣は、新老健法第四十六条の五の二第二項の基準及び新老健法第四十六条の十七の五第二項に規定する指定老人訪問看護の事業の運営に関する基準（指定老人訪問看護の取扱いに関する部分に限る。）を定めようとするときは、附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の日前においても中央社会保険医療協議会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-4031-89/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-12/par-2 When the Minister of Health and Welfare intends to specify the standards referred to in Article 46-5-2, paragraph (2) of the New Elderly Health Act and the standards for the operation of the business of designated home-nursing for the elderly prescribed in Article 46-17-5, paragraph (2) of the New Elderly Health Act (limited to the part concerning the handling of designated home-nursing for the elderly), the Minister may hear the opinion of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council even before the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4031-89/art-12/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4031-89/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-1/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4031-89/art-12/par-2: 附則第一条第二号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4031-89/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-1/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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-4031-89/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261019T112331-009, 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