# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第九十二条 (Article 92) - 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: 第九十二条 (Article 92) — address `art-92` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-92 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-92 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九十二条 art-92 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-92 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-92 **第一項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、後期高齢者医療給付を受けることができる被保険者が保険料を滞納しており、かつ、当該保険料の納期限から厚生労働省令で定める期間が経過するまでの間に、市町村が保険料納付の勧奨等を行つてもなお当該保険料を納付しない場合においては、当該保険料の滞納につき災害その他の政令で定める特別の事情があると認められる場合を除き、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、後期高齢者医療給付の全部又は一部の支払を一時差し止めるものとする。 art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-92/par-1 When an insured who is eligible to receive an old-old medical care benefit is delinquent in payment of insurance premiums and, during the period from the due date for payment of those insurance premiums until the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has elapsed, still does not pay those insurance premiums even though a municipality has carried out encouragement of insurance premium payment, etc., the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older is to temporarily suspend payment of all or part of the old-old medical care benefit, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, except where it is found that there are special circumstances specified by Cabinet Order, such as a disaster, regarding the delinquency in payment of those insurance premiums. machine translation, not official **第二項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、前項に規定する厚生労働省令で定める期間が経過しない場合においても、後期高齢者医療給付を受けることができる被保険者が、市町村が保険料納付の勧奨等を行つてもなお保険料を滞納している場合においては、当該保険料の滞納につき災害その他の政令で定める特別の事情があると認められる場合を除き、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、後期高齢者医療給付の全部又は一部の支払を一時差し止めることができる。 art-92/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-92/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-92/par-2 Even if the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in the preceding paragraph has not elapsed, if an insured who is eligible to receive an old-old medical care benefit is still in arrears on insurance premiums even though a municipality has carried out encouragement of insurance premium payment, etc., the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, temporarily suspend payment of all or part of the old-old medical care benefit, except where it is found that there are special circumstances specified by Cabinet Order, such as a disaster, in respect of the arrears of those insurance premiums. machine translation, not official **第三項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、第八十二条第一項又は第二項本文の規定の適用を受けている被保険者であつて、前二項の規定による後期高齢者医療給付の全部又は一部の支払の一時差止がなされているものが、なお滞納している保険料を納付しない場合においては、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、当該被保険者に通知して、当該一時差止に係る後期高齢者医療給付の額から当該被保険者が滞納している保険料額を控除することができる。 art-92/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-92/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-92/par-3 If an insured to which the provisions of Article 82, paragraph (1) or the main clause of paragraph (2) are applied and for which the payment of the old-old medical care benefit has been temporarily suspended in whole or in part pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs still does not pay the delinquent insurance premiums, the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may, pursuant to the provisions of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, deduct the amount of the insurance premiums that the insured is delinquent from the amount of the old-old medical care benefit pertaining to the temporary suspension, by giving notice to the insured in advance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-92/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十二条第一項 (Article 92, paragraph (1)), art-92/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-92/par-1 - art-92/par-3: 第八十二条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-82/par-1 - art-92/par-3: 第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八十二条第二項 (Article 82, paragraph (2)), art-82/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-82/par-2 - art-92/par-3: 前二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十二条第一項 (Article 92, paragraph (1)), art-92/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-92/par-1 - art-92/par-3: 前二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十二条第二項 (Article 92, paragraph (2)), art-92/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-92/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-92/par-2 ## Cited by 3 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 第八十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-82/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-92/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-92/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十二条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-92/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-92/par-3 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T112331-004, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T120156-001, translated 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