# 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 (Supplementary Provisions, 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 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（医療費に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4031-89/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/suppl-4031-89/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/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（医療費に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Medical Expenses caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4031-89/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-6 **第一項** 施行日前に行われた診療、薬剤の支給又は手当に係る第一条の規定による改正前の老人保健法（以下「旧老健法」という。）の規定による医療費の額については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4031-89/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-6/par-1 With regard to the amount of medical expenses under the provisions of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly as it stood before the amendment by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Elderly Health Act") pertaining to medical care, provision of drugs, or medical treatment provided before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 施行日から平成五年三月三十一日までの間に行われた診療、薬剤の支給又は手当に係る新老健法の規定による医療費の額については、新老健法第三十二条第二項中「第二十八条」とあるのは「老人保健法等の一部を改正する法律（平成三年法律第八十九号）附則第五条の規定により読み替えられた第二十八条」と、同条第四項中「同条第一項第二号」とあり、及び同条第五項中「第二十八条第一項第二号」とあるのは「老人保健法等の一部を改正する法律附則第五条の規定により読み替えられた第二十八条第一項第二号」とする。 suppl-4031-89/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-6/par-2 With regard to the amount of medical expenses under the provisions of the New Elderly Health Act pertaining to medical care, provision of drugs, or medical treatment provided during the period from the Effective Date to March 31, 1993, in Article 32, paragraph (2) of the New Elderly Health Act, the phrase "Article 28" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 28 as replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly, etc. (Act No. 89 of 1991)", and the phrase "paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Article" in paragraph (4) of that Article and the phrase "Article 28, paragraph (1), item (ii)" in paragraph (5) of that Article are deemed to be replaced with "Article 28, paragraph (1), item (ii) as replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly, etc.". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4031-89/art-6/par-2: 老人保健法等の一部を改正する法律（平成三年法律第八十九号）附則第五条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-4031-89/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-5 --- ## 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-20261019T105826-010, 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