# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 38) - 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: 第三十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 38) — address `suppl-4261-83/art-38` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4261-83/art-38 - 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. --- ### 第三十八条 suppl-4261-83/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4261-83/art-38 **第一項** 新高齢者医療確保法附則第十三条の五の六の規定は、高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第四十五条第一項（同法第百二十四条及び附則第十条において準用する場合を含む。）に規定する延滞金のうち第三号施行日以後の期間に対応するものについて適用し、当該延滞金のうち第三号施行日前の期間に対応するものについては、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4261-83/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4261-83/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4261-83/art-38/par-1 The provisions of Article 13-5-6 of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act apply to the portion, corresponding to the period on or after the item (iii) Effective Date, of the delinquent charge prescribed in Article 45, paragraph (1) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 124 and Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act), and the provisions then in force continue to govern the portion of that delinquent charge corresponding to the period before the item (iii) Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4261-83/art-38/par-1: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第四十五条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-45/par-1 - suppl-4261-83/art-38/par-1: 同法第百二十四条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十四条 (Article 124), art-124 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-124 --- ## 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-20261019T112331-023, 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