# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（一部負担金に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4031-89/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（一部負担金に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Co-Payments caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4031-89/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-5 **第一項** この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）から平成五年三月三十一日までの間は、新老健法第二十八条第一項第一号中「千円（次条第一項の規定により当該一部負担金の額が改定されたときは、直近の同項の規定による改定後の当該一部負担金の額とする。）」とあるのは「九百円」と、同項第二号中「七百円（次条第二項の規定により当該一部負担金の額が改定されたときは、直近の同項の規定による改定後の当該一部負担金の額とする。）」とあるのは「六百円」とする。 suppl-4031-89/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-5/par-1 From the date of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date") to March 31, 1993, in Article 28, paragraph (1), item (i) of the New Elderly Health Act, the phrase "1,000 yen (when the amount of the relevant co-payment has been revised pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article, the amount of the relevant co-payment after the most recent revision pursuant to that paragraph)" is deemed to be replaced with "900 yen", and in item (ii) of that paragraph, the phrase "700 yen (when the amount of the relevant co-payment has been revised pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the following Article, the amount of the relevant co-payment after the most recent revision pursuant to that paragraph)" is deemed to be replaced with "600 yen". machine translation, not official ## 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 附則第六条第二項（医療費に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-6/par-2 --- ## 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-20261019T105826-010, 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