# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 33) - 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: 第三十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 33) — address `suppl-4181-83/art-33` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-33 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-33 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十三条 suppl-4181-83/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-33 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、第六条の規定による改正後の老人保健法第十七条第二項第三号及び第四号の定め（同項第三号の定めのうち高度の医療技術に係るものを除く。）、同法第三十一条の二の二第二項及び第四項の基準並びに同法第三十一条の三第二項第一号及び第三項の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-4181-83/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when intending to establish the specifications in Article 17, paragraph (2), items (iii) and (iv) of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly as amended by the provisions of Article 6 (excluding, from the specifications in item (iii) of that paragraph, those pertaining to advanced medical care techniques), the standards in Article 31-2-2, paragraphs (2) and (4) of that Act, and the standards in Article 31-3, paragraph (2), item (i) and paragraph (3) of that Act, hear the opinions of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council even before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、高齢者医療確保法第六十四条第二項第三号及び第四号の定め（同項第三号の定めのうち高度の医療技術に関するものを除く。）、高齢者医療確保法第七十一条第一項の基準、高齢者医療確保法第七十四条第二項及び第四項の基準、高齢者医療確保法第七十五条第二項及び第四項の基準、高齢者医療確保法第七十六条第二項第一号及び第三項の基準並びに高齢者医療確保法第七十八条第四項及び第七十九条第一項の基準（指定訪問看護の取扱いに関する部分に限る。）を定めようとするときは、第七条の規定の施行の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-4181-83/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when intending to establish the specifications in Article 64, paragraph (2), items (iii) and (iv) of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act (excluding, from the specifications in item (iii) of that paragraph, those pertaining to advanced medical care techniques), the standards in Article 71, paragraph (1) of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act, the standards in Article 74, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act, the standards in Article 75, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act, the standards in Article 76, paragraph (2), item (i) and paragraph (3) of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act, and the standards in Article 78, paragraph (4) and Article 79, paragraph (1) of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act (limited to the part concerning the treatment of designated home-nursing), hear the opinions of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council even before the date on which the provisions of Article 7 come into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 高齢者医療確保法第六十四条第二項第三号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第六十四条第二項第三号 (Article 64, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-64/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-64/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-64/par-2/item-3 - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 第四号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第六十四条第二項第四号 (Article 64, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-64/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-64/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-64/par-2/item-4 - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 高齢者医療確保法第七十一条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十一条第一項 (Article 71, paragraph (1)), art-71/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-71/par-1 - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 高齢者医療確保法第七十四条第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十四条第二項 (Article 74, paragraph (2)), art-74/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-74/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-74/par-2 - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 第四項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十四条第四項 (Article 74, paragraph (4)), art-74/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-74/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-74/par-4 - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 高齢者医療確保法第七十五条第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十五条第二項 (Article 75, paragraph (2)), art-75/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-75/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-75/par-2 - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 第四項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十五条第四項 (Article 75, paragraph (4)), art-75/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-75/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-75/par-4 - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 高齢者医療確保法第七十六条第二項第一号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十六条第二項第一号 (Article 76, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-76/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-76/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-76/par-2/item-1 - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 第三項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十六条第三項 (Article 76, paragraph (3)), art-76/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-76/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-76/par-3 - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 高齢者医療確保法第七十八条第四項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十八条第四項 (Article 78, paragraph (4)), art-78/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-78/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-78/par-4 - suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2: 第七十九条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十九条第一項 (Article 79, paragraph (1)), art-79/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite 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-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第百三十三条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-133/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T112331-018, 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