# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第五十二条 (Article 52) - 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: 第五十二条 (Article 52)（資格取得の時期） — address `art-52` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-52 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-52 - 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. --- ### 第五十二条（資格取得の時期） — (Time of Acquisition of Qualification) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-52 **第一項** 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は、次の各号のいずれかに該当するに至つた日又は前条各号のいずれにも該当しなくなつた日から、その資格を取得する。 art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-52/par-1 A insured for medical care for the elderly provided by a Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older acquires eligibility from the day on which the person comes to fall under any of the following items or the day on which the person no longer falls under any of the items of the preceding Article: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該後期高齢者医療広域連合の区域内に住所を有する者（第五十条第二号の認定を受けた者を除く。）が七十五歳に達したとき。 art-52/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-52/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-52/par-1/item-1 when a person who is domiciled within the area of the relevant Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older (excluding a person who has received the certification set forth in Article 50, item (ii)) has reached 75 years of age; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 七十五歳以上の者が当該後期高齢者医療広域連合の区域内に住所を有するに至つたとき。 art-52/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-52/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-52/par-1/item-2 when a person who is 75 years of age or older has come to have a domicile within the area of the relevant Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 当該後期高齢者医療広域連合の区域内に住所を有する六十五歳以上七十五歳未満の者が、第五十条第二号の認定を受けたとき。 art-52/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-52/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-52/par-1/item-3 when a person who is 65 years of age or older and under 75 years of age and who has a domicile within the area of the relevant Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older has received the certification set forth in Article 50, item (ii). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-52/par-1: 前条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十一条 (Article 51), art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51 - art-52/par-1/item-1: 第五十条第二号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十条第一項第二号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-50/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-50/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-50/par-1/item-2 - art-52/par-1/item-3: 第五十条第二号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十条第一項第二号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-50/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-50/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-50/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 2 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 第五十五条の二第一項（国民健康保険法第百十六条の二の規定の適用を受ける者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-55-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-55-2/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十九条第二項（市町村の特別会計への繰入れ等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-99/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-99/par-2 --- ## 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 - 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