# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 23) - 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: 第二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 23)（入院時食事療養費に関する規定の施行前の準備） — address `suppl-4061-56/art-23` - 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-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4061-56/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（入院時食事療養費に関する規定の施行前の準備） — Preparations before Enforcement of Provisions Concerning Dietary Treatment Expenses for Inpatients caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4061-56/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4061-56/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4061-56/art-23 **第一項** 厚生大臣は、新老健法第三十一条の二第二項に規定する標準負担額を定めようとするときは、施行日前において老人保健審議会に諮問することができる。この場合において、当該諮問に係る老人保健審議会からの答申は、新老健法第七条に規定する政令で定める審議会からの答申とみなす。 suppl-4061-56/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4061-56/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4061-56/art-23/par-1 When the Minister of Health and Welfare intends to specify the standard co-payment amount prescribed in Article 31-2, paragraph (2) of the New Elderly Health Act, the Minister may consult the Elderly Health Council before the Effective Date. In this case, the report from the Elderly Health Council in response to that consultation is deemed to be a report from the council specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 7 of the New Elderly Health Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生大臣は、新老健法第三十一条の二第二項に規定する基準並びに同条第四項に規定する入院時食事療養費に係る療養の取扱い及び担当に関する基準を定めようとするときは、施行日前においても中央社会保険医療協議会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-4061-56/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4061-56/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4061-56/art-23/par-2 When the Minister of Health and Welfare intends to specify the standards prescribed in Article 31-2, paragraph (2) of the New Elderly Health Act and the standards concerning the treatment and taking charge of medical treatment pertaining to dietary treatment expenses for inpatients prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article, the Minister may hear the opinion of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council even before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## 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