# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第二十条 (Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（特定健康診査） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（特定健康診査） — (Special health examinations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-20 **第一項** 保険者は、特定健康診査等実施計画に基づき、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、四十歳以上の加入者に対し、特定健康診査を行うものとする。ただし、加入者が特定健康診査に相当する診査を受け、厚生労働省令で定めるところによりその結果の記録の写しの提供を受けたとき、又は第二十六条第二項の規定により特定健康診査に関する記録の送付を受けたときは、この限りでない。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-20/par-1 Insurers are to provide special health examinations to participants who are 40 years of age or older, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, based on the Implementation Plan for Special health examinations, etc.; provided, however, that this does not apply when a participant has undergone an examination equivalent to a special health examination and has been provided with a copy of the record of the results pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, or when a record concerning special health examinations has been sent pursuant to the provisions of Article 26, paragraph (2). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-20/par-1: 第二十六条第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十六条第二項 (Article 26, paragraph (2)), art-26/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-26/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百五十条第一項（保健事業及び福祉事業） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-150/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-150/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 第七十二条の五第一項（特定健康診査等に要する費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-5/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十一条第一項（他の法令に基づく健康診断との関係） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-21/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十二条第一項（特定健康診査に関する記録の保存） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-22/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十一条第一項（健康診査等指針との調和） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-31/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-20261019T112331-001, 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