# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37)

- 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: 第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37) — address `suppl-4261-83/art-37`
- 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-37
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4261-83/art-37
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### 第三十七条
<sup>suppl-4261-83/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4261-83/art-37</sup>

**第一項**  新高齢者医療確保法第百六十条の二の規定は、第三号施行日以後に同条の納期が到来する保険料について適用し、第三号施行日前に当該納期に相当する期限が到来した保険料については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4261-83/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4261-83/art-37/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 160-2 of the New Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act apply to insurance premiums for which the due date prescribed in that Article arrives on or after the item (iii) Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern insurance premiums for which the time limit corresponding to that due date arrived before the item (iii) Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4261-83/art-37/par-1: 新高齢者医療確保法第百六十条の二 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十条の二 (Article 160-2), art-160-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-160-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-160-2

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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-20261019T112331-023, 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