# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第二十四条 (Article 24) - 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: 第二十四条 (Article 24)（特定保健指導） — address `art-24` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-24 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条（特定保健指導） — (Specific Health Guidance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-24 **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、特定保健指導を行うものとする。 art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-24/par-1 Insurers are to provide specified health guidance pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the implementation plan for Special health examinations, etc. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Insurers are to provide specified health guidance pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the implementation plan for Special health examinations, etc." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb ## Cited by 4 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 第二十五条第一項（特定保健指導に関する記録の保存） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-25/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 - 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 24, 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