# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

- 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（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-5011-9/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5011-9/art-3
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### 第三条（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
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5011-9/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5011-9/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5011-9/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  第三条の規定による改正後の高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第百六十条の二第二項の規定は、平成二十七年四月一日以後に納期（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律又は同法に基づく条例の規定により保険料を納付し、又は納入すべき期限をいい、当該納期後に保険料を課することができることとなった場合にあっては、当該保険料を課することができることとなった日とする。）が到来する保険料について適用する。
<sup>suppl-5011-9/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5011-9/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5011-9/art-3/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 160-2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People as amended by Article 3 apply to insurance premiums whose due date (meaning the time limit by which insurance premiums are to be paid or remitted under the provisions of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People or a Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance under that Act, and in the case where it becomes possible to impose insurance premiums after that due date, the day on which it becomes possible to impose those insurance premiums) arrives on or after April 1, 2015.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5011-9/art-3/par-1: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第百六十条の二第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十条の二第二項 (Article 160-2, paragraph (2)), art-160-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-160-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-160-2/par-2

## 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-5011-9/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5011-9/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-20261019T105826-030, translated 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T105826-030, 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
