# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百六十条の二 (Article 160-2) - 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: 第百六十条の二 (Article 160-2)（賦課決定の期間制限） — address `art-160-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-160-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-160-2 - 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. --- ### 第百六十条の二（賦課決定の期間制限） — (Time Limits for Assessment Decisions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-160-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-160-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-160-2 **第一項** 保険料の賦課決定は、当該年度における最初の保険料の納期（この法律又はこれ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つた場合にあつては、当該保険料を課することができることとなつた日とする。次項において同じ。）の翌日から起算して二年を経過した日以後においては、することができない。 art-160-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-160-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-160-2/par-1 An assessment and determination of insurance premiums may not be made on or after the day on which two years have elapsed from the day following the first due date for payment of insurance premiums in the relevant fiscal year (meaning the due date for payment of insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of this Act or Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance under this Act, and in cases where it becomes possible to impose insurance premiums after the due date, the day on which it becomes possible to impose the insurance premiums; the same applies in the following paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An assessment and determination of insurance premiums may not be made on or after the day on which two years have elapsed from the day following the first due date for payment of insurance premiums in the relevant fiscal year (meaning the due date for payment of insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of this Act or Prefectural Ordinance under this Act, and in cases where it becomes possible to impose insurance premiums after the due date, the day on which it becomes possible to impose the insurance premiums; the same applies in the following paragraph)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **第二項** 保険料の賦課決定をした後に、被保険者の責めに帰することのできない事由によつて被保険者に関する医療保険各法（国民健康保険法を除く。）との間における適用関係の調整を要することが判明した場合における保険料の額を減少させる賦課決定は、前項の規定にかかわらず、当該年度における最初の保険料の納期の翌日から起算して二年を経過した日以後であつても、当該年度における最初の保険料の納期の翌日から起算して調整に必要と認められる期間に相当する期間を経過する日まですることができる。 art-160-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-160-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-160-2/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an assessment and decision to reduce the amount of insurance premiums in the case where it is found, after an assessment and decision of insurance premiums is made, that adjustment of the applicable relationship between the insured and medical insurance laws (excluding the National Health Insurance Act) is required due to grounds not attributable to insured, may be made on or after the day on which two years have elapsed from the day following the due date of the first insurance premiums in the relevant fiscal year, until the day on which a period equivalent to the period found necessary for the adjustment has elapsed from the day following the due date of the first insurance premiums in the relevant fiscal year. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-160-2/par-1: 次項 → 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/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-160-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-160-2/par-2 - art-160-2/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十条の二第一項 (Article 160-2, paragraph (1)), art-160-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-160-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-160-2/par-1 ## Cited by 4 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 第百六十条の二第一項（賦課決定の期間制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-160-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-160-2/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（賦課決定の期間制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-160-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-160-2/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4261-83/art-37/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三条第一項（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/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5011-9/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5011-9/art-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律), Article 160-2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 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