# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第二十一条 (Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（他の法令に基づく健康診断との関係） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（他の法令に基づく健康診断との関係） — (Relationship with Medical Examinations Based on Other Laws and Regulations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-21 **第一項** 保険者は、加入者が、労働安全衛生法（昭和四十七年法律第五十七号）その他の法令に基づき行われる特定健康診査に相当する健康診断を受けた場合又は受けることができる場合は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、前条の特定健康診査の全部又は一部を行つたものとする。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-21/par-1 If a participant has undergone, or is able to undergo, a medical examination equivalent to a special health examination conducted under the Industrial Safety and Health Act (Act No. 57 of 1972) or other laws and regulations, the Insurer is deemed to have conducted all or part of the special health examination under the preceding Article, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 労働安全衛生法第二条第三号に規定する事業者その他の法令に基づき特定健康診査に相当する健康診断を実施する責務を有する者（以下「事業者等」という。）は、当該健康診断の実施を保険者に対し委託することができる。この場合において、委託をしようとする事業者等は、その健康診断の実施に必要な費用を保険者に支払わなければならない。 art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-21/par-2 An employer prescribed in Article 2, item (iii) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act or any other person responsible for conducting medical examinations equivalent to Special health examinations pursuant to laws and orders (hereinafter referred to as an "employer, etc.") may entrust the implementation of the medical examinations to insurers. In this case, the employer, etc. that intends to entrust the implementation of the medical examinations must pay the necessary expenses to the insurers. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-21/par-1: 前条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-20 - art-21/par-2: 労働安全衛生法第二条第三号 → 労働安全衛生法 第二条第一項第三号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-2/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-2/par-1/item-3 ## 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 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-20261019T120156-001, 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