# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 121)

- 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: 第百二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 121)（処分等の効力） — address `suppl-4161-154/art-121`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4161-154/art-121
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4161-154/art-121
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### 第百二十一条（処分等の効力） — Effect of Dispositions
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<sup>suppl-4161-154/art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4161-154/art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4161-154/art-121</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前のそれぞれの法律（これに基づく命令を含む。以下この条において同じ。）の規定によってした処分、手続その他の行為であって、改正後のそれぞれの法律の規定に相当の規定があるものは、この附則に別段の定めがあるものを除き、改正後のそれぞれの法律の相当の規定によってしたものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-4161-154/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4161-154/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4161-154/art-121/par-1</sup>
A disposition, procedure, or other act performed under the provisions of each Act before this Act comes into effect (including an order based on it; the same applies below in this Article), for which there is an equivalent provision under the provisions of each Act after the amendment, is deemed to be a disposition, procedure, or other act performed under the equivalent provision of each Act after the amendment, except where otherwise provided for in these Supplementary Provisions.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4161-154/art-121/par-1: この条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第百二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 121), suppl-4161-154/art-121 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4161-154/art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4161-154/art-121

## 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 附則第百二十一条第一項（処分等の効力） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4161-154/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4161-154/art-121/par-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-20261019T112331-017, 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
