# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)

- 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（附則第五条第一項の届出に係る高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律の届出の特例） — address `suppl-4211-77/art-18`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4211-77/art-18
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4211-77/art-18
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### 第十八条（附則第五条第一項の届出に係る高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律の届出の特例） — Special Provisions on Notifications under the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People Relating to the Notification under Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4211-77/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4211-77/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4211-77/art-18</sup>

**第一項**  附則第五条第一項の規定による届出及び同条第二項の規定により適用するものとされた新法第二十八条の二の規定による付記は、それぞれ新法第三十条の四十七の規定による届出及び新法第二十八条の二の規定による付記とみなして、前条の規定による改正後の高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第五十四条第十項の規定を適用する。
<sup>suppl-4211-77/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4211-77/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4211-77/art-18/par-1</sup>
The notification under Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions and the annotation under Article 28-2 of the New Act that is to be applied pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article are respectively deemed to be a notification under Article 30-47 of the New Act and an annotation under Article 28-2 of the New Act, for the purpose of applying Article 54, paragraph (10) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People as amended by the preceding Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4211-77/art-18/par-1: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第五十四条第十項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十四条第六項 (Article 54, paragraph (6)), art-54/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-54/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-54/par-6

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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-20261019T112331-019, 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
