# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13)

- 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: 第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13)（国会に対する報告） — address `suppl-3611-106/art-13`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-13
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-13
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### 第十三条（国会に対する報告） — Reports to the Diet
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3611-106/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-13</sup>

**第一項**  厚生大臣は、第四条の規定の施行に際しては、前条の規定による老人保健施設を経営する事業の試行的実施の状況及び老人保健施設の運営等に関する基本的事項について、国会に報告しなければならない。
<sup>suppl-3611-106/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-13/par-1</sup>
At the time of the enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, the Minister of Health and Welfare must report to the Diet on the state of the trial implementation of the business of operating health care facilities for the elderly under the provisions of the preceding Article and on the basic matters concerning the operation, etc. of health care facilities for the elderly.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3611-106/art-13/par-1: 前条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12), suppl-3611-106/art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-12

## 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 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-1/par-1/item-1

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## 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-20261019T112331-008, 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
