# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)

- 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: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)（老人保健法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4061-56/art-21`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4061-56/art-21
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4061-56/art-21
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### 第二十一条（老人保健法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4061-56/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4061-56/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4061-56/art-21</sup>

**第一項**  施行日前に行われた食事の提供、看護又は移送に係る老人保健法の規定による給付については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4061-56/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4061-56/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4061-56/art-21/par-1</sup>
With regard to benefits under the provisions of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly pertaining to the provision of meals, nursing or transportation provided before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261019T112331-010, 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