# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 36) - 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: 第三十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 36) — address `suppl-4181-83/art-36` - 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-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-36 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条 suppl-4181-83/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-36 **第一項** この法律の公布の日に現に存する市町村（この法律の公布の日後この項の規定により広域連合を設ける日までの間に廃置分合により消滅した市町村を除く。以下この条において「現存市町村」という。）は、高齢者医療確保法の施行の準備のため、平成十八年度の末日までに、都道府県の区域ごとに当該区域内のすべての現存市町村が加入する広域連合を設けるものとする。 suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 Municipalities existing on the date of promulgation of this Act (excluding municipalities that cease to exist due to the creation, abolition, division or merger of municipalities during the period after the date of promulgation of this Act until the date on which a cross-regional federation is established pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph; hereinafter in this Article referred to as "existing municipalities") are to establish, in order to prepare for the enforcement of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act, by the last day of fiscal year 2006, for each area of a prefecture, a cross-regional federation that all existing municipalities within that area join. machine translation, not official **第二項** 平成十八年度の末日までに前項の広域連合に加入していない現存市町村以外の市町村は、同日後速やかに同項の広域連合に加入するものとする。 suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-2 Municipalities, other than existing municipalities, that have not joined the cross-regional federation referred to in the preceding paragraph by the last day of fiscal year 2006 are to join the cross-regional federation referred to in that paragraph promptly after that day. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1: この項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十六条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 36, paragraph (1)), suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 - suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1: この条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 36), suppl-4181-83/art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-36 - suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十六条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 36, paragraph (1)), suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 ## Cited by 4 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 附則第三十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-36/par-2 - 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