# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第五十一条 (Article 51) - 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51)（適用除外） — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条（適用除外） — (Exclusion from Application) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51 **第一項** 前条の規定にかかわらず、次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、後期高齢者医療広域連合が行う後期高齢者医療の被保険者としない。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, a person who falls under any of the following items is not eligible to be an insured for medical care for the elderly provided by the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, a person who falls under any of the following items is not eligible to be a insured for medical care for the elderly provided by the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **一** 生活保護法（昭和二十五年法律第百四十四号）による保護を受けている世帯（その保護を停止されている世帯を除く。）に属する者 art-51/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51/par-1/item-1 a person who belongs to a household receiving public assistance under the Public Assistance Act (Act No. 144 of 1950) (excluding a household for which public assistance has been suspended); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 前号に掲げるもののほか、後期高齢者医療の適用除外とすべき特別の理由がある者で厚生労働省令で定めるもの art-51/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51/par-1/item-2 beyond what is set forth in the preceding item, a person who has a special reason to be excluded from the application of Old-Old Healthcare and who is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "beyond what is set forth in the preceding item, a person who has a special reason to be excluded from the application of Old-Old Healthcare and who is specified by Order of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## Cites - art-51/par-1: 前条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十条 (Article 50), art-50 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-50 - art-51/par-1/item-2: 前号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十一条第一項第一号 (Article 51, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-51/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 第七条第一項第十号の二（住民票の記載事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-7/par-1/item-10-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-7/par-1/item-10-2 - 健康保険法 第三条第一項第七号（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-3/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-3/par-1/item-7 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十一条第一項第二号（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51/par-1/item-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十二条第一項（資格取得の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-52/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十三条第一項（資格喪失の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-53/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十三条第二項（資格喪失の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-53/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-4181-83/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-2 --- ## 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 51, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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 51, paragraph (1), item (ii) — 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