# 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)（中央社会保険医療協議会への諮問等に係る準備行為） — address `suppl-5081-31/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-5081-31/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5081-31/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（中央社会保険医療協議会への諮問等に係る準備行為） — Preparatory Acts Concerning Consultation with the Central Social Insurance Medical Council, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5081-31/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5081-31/art-3 **第一項** suppl-5081-31/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5081-31/art-3/par-1 **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、第八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六十四条第二項第六号の定めをしようとするとき、又は第八条の規定による改正後の同法第七十六条第三項第一号イ若しくはロの規定による基準を定めようとするときは、第四号施行日前においても、同条第五項の規定の例により、中央社会保険医療協議会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-5081-31/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5081-31/art-3/par-2 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare intends to make the determination under Article 64, paragraph (2), item (vi) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People as amended by the provisions of Article 8, or intends to establish the standards under the provisions of Article 76, paragraph (3), item (i), (a) or (b) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 8, the Minister may, even before the item (iv) Effective Date, hear the opinions of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council, by the same procedure as under the provisions of paragraph (5) of that Article. machine translation, not official ## 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 附則第二条第二項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5081-31/art-2/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5081-31/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5081-31/art-38/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-20261019T112331-029, 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