# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第八十条 (Article 80) - 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: 第八十条 (Article 80)（厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事の指導） — address `art-80` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-80 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-80 - 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. --- ### 第八十条（厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事の指導） — (Guidance by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or Prefectural Governors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-80 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-80 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-80 **第一項** 指定訪問看護事業者及び当該指定に係る事業所の看護師その他の従業者は、指定訪問看護に関し、厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事の指導を受けなければならない。 art-80/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-80/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-80/par-1 A designated home-nursing provider and nurses and other employees at the office to which the designation pertains must receive guidance from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the prefectural governor with regard to designated home-nursing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第八十二条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-82/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-82/par-6 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十五条第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-165/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 - 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