# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第八十六条 (Article 86) - 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: 第八十六条 (Article 86) — address `art-86` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-86 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-86 - 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. --- ### 第八十六条 art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-86 **第一項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、被保険者の死亡に関しては、条例の定めるところにより、葬祭費の支給又は葬祭の給付を行うものとする。ただし、特別の理由があるときは、その全部又は一部を行わないことができる。 art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-86/par-1 A Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older is to, pursuant to the provisions of its Ordinances, pay funeral expenses or provide funeral rites benefits with regard to the death of an insured; provided, however, that if there are special reasons, the payment or benefits may not be made in whole or in part. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older is to, pursuant to the provisions of Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances, pay funeral expenses or provide funeral rites benefits with regard to the death of an insured; provided, however, that if there are special reasons, the payment or benefits may not be made in whole or in part." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **第二項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、前項の給付のほか、後期高齢者医療広域連合の条例の定めるところにより、傷病手当金の支給その他の後期高齢者医療給付を行うことができる。 art-86/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-86/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-86/par-2 In addition to the benefits set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may pay injury and sickness allowance and provide other medical care benefit for the old-old pursuant to the provisions of the ordinances of the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-86/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八十六条第一項 (Article 86, paragraph (1)), art-86/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-86/par-1 ## 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 第八十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-86/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-86/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 86, 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