# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) — address `suppl-4141-102/art-21` - 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-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条 suppl-4141-102/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-21 **第一項** この法律の施行前に生じた旧老健法第四十六条の八の規定による高額医療費の支給を受ける権利の時効については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4141-102/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-21/par-1 With regard to the extinctive prescription of the right to receive payment of high-cost medical expenses under the provisions of Article 46-8 of the Former Elderly Health Act that arose before the enforcement of this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## 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