# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4091-103` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4091-103 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4091-103 - 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. --- ## 附　則 平成九年六月二四日法律第一〇三号 suppl-4091-103 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4091-103 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4091-103 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4091-103/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4091-103/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4091-103/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から施行する。 suppl-4091-103/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4091-103/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4091-103/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official ### 第二条（経過措置） — Transitional Measures caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4091-103/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4091-103/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4091-103/art-2 **第一項** 第一条から第五条まで、第七条から第二十四条まで、第二十六条から第三十二条まで、第三十四条から第三十七条まで、第三十九条、第四十一条から第五十条まで、第五十二条から第六十四条まで及び第六十六条から第七十二条までの規定による改正後の法律の規定は、平成八年四月一日に始まる事業年度に係る当該法律の規定に規定する書類（第十八条の規定による改正後の日本輸出入銀行法第三十五条第二項及び第十九条の規定による改正後の日本開発銀行法第三十三条第二項に規定する書類のうち、平成八年四月から九月までの半期に係るものを除く。）から適用する。 suppl-4091-103/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4091-103/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4091-103/art-2/par-1 The provisions of the Acts as amended by the provisions of Articles 1 through 5, Articles 7 through 24, Articles 26 through 32, Articles 34 through 37, Article 39, Articles 41 through 50, Articles 52 through 64 and Articles 66 through 72 apply starting with the documents prescribed in the provisions of those Acts pertaining to business years beginning on April 1, 1996 (excluding, among the documents prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (2) of the Export-Import Bank of Japan Act as amended by the provisions of Article 18 and Article 33, paragraph (2) of the Japan Development Bank Act as amended by the provisions of Article 19, those pertaining to the half-year period from April to September 1996). machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261019T112331-012, 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