# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（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-5051-31/art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-7 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七条（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 caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5051-31/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-7 **第一項** 附則第一条第一号に掲げる規定の施行の日（以下この条及び次条において「第一号施行日」という。）前に第六条の規定（同号に掲げる改正規定に限る。以下この条において同じ。）による改正前の高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律（次条において「第一号改正前高確法」という。）第八条の規定により定められた全国医療費適正化計画（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第八条第一項に規定する全国医療費適正化計画をいう。以下この条において同じ。）は、第一号施行日から令和六年三月三十一日までの間は、第六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（次条において「第一号改正後高確法」という。）第八条の規定により定められた全国医療費適正化計画とみなす。 suppl-5051-31/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-7/par-1 A national plan for the optimization of medical expenses (meaning the national plan for the optimization of medical expenses prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) established pursuant to the provisions of Article 8 of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People as it stood before the amendment by the provisions of Article 6 (limited to the amending provisions set forth in that item; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) (referred to as the "item (i) Pre-amendment Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act" in the following Article) before the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as the "item (i) Effective Date") is deemed, during the period from the item (i) Effective Date until March 31, 2024, to be a national plan for the optimization of medical expenses established pursuant to the provisions of Article 8 of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People as amended by the provisions of Article 6 (referred to as the "item (i) Amended Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act" in the following Article). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5051-31/art-7/par-1: 附則第一条第一号 → 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 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 - suppl-5051-31/art-7/par-1: この条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-5051-31/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-7 - suppl-5051-31/art-7/par-1: 次条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-5051-31/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-8 - suppl-5051-31/art-7/par-1: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第八条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-8/par-1 - suppl-5051-31/art-7/par-1: 第八条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八条 (Article 8), art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-8 ## 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 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第七条第一項（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） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-7/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-20261019T112331-027, 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