# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 36)

- 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: 第三十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 36)（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4261-83/art-36`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-36
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### 第三十六条（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People
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<sup>suppl-4261-83/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4261-83/art-36</sup>

**第一項**  新高齢者医療確保法第五十五条第一項第五号の規定（入居に係る部分に限る。）は、第三号施行日以後に同号に掲げる特定施設に該当する施設に入居をすることにより当該施設の所在する場所に住所を変更したと認められる後期高齢者医療の被保険者であって、当該施設に入居をした際、当該施設が所在する後期高齢者医療広域連合以外の後期高齢者医療広域連合の区域内に住所を有していたと認められるものについて適用し、第三号施行日前に当該施設に入居をすることにより当該施設の所在する場所に住所を変更したと認められる者については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4261-83/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4261-83/art-36/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 55, paragraph (1), item (v) of the New Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act (limited to the part pertaining to moving in) apply to a person insured for old-old medical care who is found to have changed their address to the place where a facility that falls under a specified facility set forth in that item is located by moving into that facility on or after the item (iii) Effective Date, and who is found to have had an address within the area of an Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older other than the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older in which that facility is located when moving into that facility, and the provisions then in force continue to govern a person who is found to have changed their address to the place where that facility is located by moving into that facility before the item (iii) Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4261-83/art-36/par-1: 新高齢者医療確保法第五十五条第一項第五号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十五条第一項第五号 (Article 55, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-55/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-55/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-55/par-1/item-5

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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-20261019T112331-022, translated 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T115100-001, 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
