# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-3571-80/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — (Effective Date) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-3571-80/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して一年六月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。ただし、第五章、第八十四条、第八十七条第二項、附則第三十一条及び附則第三十二条の規定（附則第三十一条の規定による社会保険診療報酬支払基金法第十三条第二項の改正規定を除く。）は公布の日から起算して一年三月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から、第二章、第三十条（中央社会保険医療協議会に関する部分に限る。）及び附則第三十八条から附則第四十条までの規定は公布の日から起算して三月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。 suppl-3571-80/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year and six months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions of Chapter V, Article 84, Article 87, paragraph (2), Article 31, and Article 32 of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding the provisions to amend Article 13, paragraph (2) of the Health Insurance Claims Review & Reimbursement Services Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 31 of the Supplementary Provisions) come into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year and three months from the date of promulgation, and the provisions of Chapter II, Article 30 (limited to the part concerning the Central Social Insurance Medical Council), and Article 38 through Article 40 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding three months from the date of promulgation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-3571-80/art-1/par-1: 第八十四条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八十四条 (Article 84), art-84 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-84 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-84 - suppl-3571-80/art-1/par-1: 社会保険診療報酬支払基金法第十三条第二項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000129, 第十三条第二項 (Article 13, paragraph (2)), art-13/par-2 — not held in this collection - suppl-3571-80/art-1/par-1: 第三十条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十条 (Article 30), art-30 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-30 --- ## 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