# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 39) - 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: 第三十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 39) — address `suppl-4181-83/art-39` - 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-39 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-39 - 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. --- ### 第三十九条 suppl-4181-83/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-39 **第一項** 市町村は、第七条の規定の施行後三年間は、附則第三十二条の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされた平成二十年四月改正前老健法の規定による医療等に関する収入及び支出について、特別会計を設けるものとする。 suppl-4181-83/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-39/par-1 Municipalities are to establish a special account for revenue and expenditure pertaining to the medical care, etc. under the provisions of the Pre-April 2008 Elderly Health Act as to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 32 of the Supplementary Provisions, for three years after the provisions of Article 7 come into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-83/art-39/par-1: 附則第三十二条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 32), suppl-4181-83/art-32 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-32 ## 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-20261019T115100-001, 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