# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37) - 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: 第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37) — address `suppl-4181-83/art-37` - 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-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条 suppl-4181-83/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-37 **第一項** 第七条の規定の施行の際現にされている同条の規定による改正前の老人保健法（以下「平成二十年四月改正前老健法」という。）第二十五条の二の規定による市町村長に対する届出（高齢者医療確保法第五十一条各号のいずれかに該当する者に係るものを除く。）は、高齢者医療確保法第五十四条第一項の規定によりされた後期高齢者医療広域連合に対する届出とみなす。 suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-1 A notification to the mayor of a municipality under the provisions of Article 25-2 of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly before the amendment by the provisions of Article 7 (hereinafter referred to as the "Pre-April 2008 Elderly Health Act") that has actually been made at the time of enforcement of the provisions of that Article (excluding one pertaining to a person who falls under any of the items of Article 51 of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act) is deemed to be a notification to the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older made pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (1) of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第七条の規定の施行の際現に受けている平成二十年四月改正前老健法第二十五条第一項第二号の規定による市町村長の認定（高齢者医療確保法第五十一条各号のいずれかに該当する者に係るものを除く。）は、高齢者医療確保法第五十条第二号の規定により後期高齢者医療広域連合から受けた認定とみなす。 suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-2 A certification by the mayor of a municipality under the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Pre-April 2008 Elderly Health Act that has actually been received at the time of enforcement of the provisions of Article 7 (excluding one pertaining to a person who falls under any of the items of Article 51 of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act) is deemed to be a certification received from the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older pursuant to the provisions of Article 50, item (ii) of the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-1: 高齢者医療確保法第五十一条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十一条 (Article 51), art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51 - suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-1: 高齢者医療確保法第五十四条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-54/par-1 - suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-2: 高齢者医療確保法第五十一条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十一条 (Article 51), art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-51 - suppl-4181-83/art-37/par-2: 高齢者医療確保法第五十条第二号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十条第一項第二号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-50/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-50/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-50/par-1/item-2 ## 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四号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-4 - 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