# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) — address `suppl-4141-102/art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条 suppl-4141-102/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-20 **第一項** 社会保険診療報酬支払基金法（昭和二十三年法律第百二十九号）による社会保険診療報酬支払基金は、この法律の施行後遅滞なく、平成十四年度に係る納付すべき拠出金の額を変更し、変更後の拠出金の額を通知しなければならない。 suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-1 The Social Insurance Medical Fee Payment Fund under the Act on Social Insurance Medical Fee Payment Fund (Act No. 129 of 1948) must, without delay after the enforcement of this Act, change the amount of contributions to be paid for fiscal year 2002 and notify the changed amount of contributions. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新老健法第五十九条第三項の規定は、前項の場合について準用する。 suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-2 The provisions of Article 59, paragraph (3) of the New Elderly Health Act apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第二十条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20, paragraph (1)), suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-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 附則第二十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-20/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-36/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-20261019T105826-020, 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