# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9)

- 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
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- Provision: 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9)（老人保健法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4101-109/art-9`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4101-109/art-9
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### 第九条（老人保健法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly
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<sup>suppl-4101-109/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4101-109/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4101-109/art-9</sup>

**第一項**  老人保健法第六条第四項に規定する老人保健施設、同法第二十五条第三項に規定する保険医療機関等、同法第三十一条の三第一項第一号に規定する特定承認保険医療機関又は同法第四十六条の五の二第一項に規定する指定老人訪問看護事業者が附則第一条第一号に掲げる規定の施行の日前にした偽りその他不正の行為により支払われた医療又は入院時食事療養費、特定療養費、老人保健施設療養費若しくは老人訪問看護療養費の支給に関する費用の返還については、第二条の規定による改正後の老人保健法第四十二条第三項（同法第四十六条の五及び第四十六条の五の三において準用する場合を含む。）の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4101-109/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4101-109/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4101-109/art-9/par-1</sup>
With regard to the repayment of expenses for medical care paid, or for the payment of dietary treatment expenses for inpatients, specified medical expenses, medical expenses for health care facilities for the elderly or medical expenses for home-nursing for the elderly, by reason of a false or other wrongful act committed, before the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions, by a health care facility for the elderly prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (4) of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly, a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc. prescribed in Article 25, paragraph (3) of that Act, a specially approved medical institution providing services covered by health insurance prescribed in Article 31-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of that Act or a business operator of designated home-nursing for the elderly prescribed in Article 46-5-2, paragraph (1) of that Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 42, paragraph (3) of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Articles 46-5 and 46-5-3 of that Act).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4101-109/art-9/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-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1

## 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-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1

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## 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
