# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5031-66/art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5031-66/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5031-66/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-66/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5031-66/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5031-66/art-7 **第一項** 第五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（以下この条において「新高確法」という。）第六十七条第一項の規定は、附則第一条第四号に掲げる規定の施行の日（以下「第四号施行日」という。）以後に行われる診療、薬剤の支給若しくは手当又は訪問看護に係る新高確法の規定による後期高齢者医療給付についてそれぞれ適用し、第四号施行日前に行われた診療、薬剤の支給若しくは手当又は訪問看護に係る第五条の規定による改正前の高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律（次項において「旧高確法」という。）の規定による後期高齢者医療給付については、それぞれなお従前の例による。 suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-1 The provisions of Article 67, paragraph (1) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People as amended by Article 5 (hereinafter referred to in this Article as the "Revised Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act") apply respectively to the old-old medical care benefit under the provisions of the Revised Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act pertaining to medical care, provision of drugs or medical treatment, or home-nursing provided on or after the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter referred to as the "item (iv) Effective Date"), and the provisions then in force continue to govern respectively the old-old medical care benefit under the provisions of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People as it stood before the amendment by Article 5 (referred to as the "Former Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act" in the following paragraph) pertaining to medical care, provision of drugs or medical treatment, or home-nursing provided before the item (iv) Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新高確法第九十三条の規定は、第四号施行日以後に行われる新高確法の規定による後期高齢者医療給付に要する費用について適用し、第四号施行日前に行われた旧高確法の規定による後期高齢者医療給付に要する費用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-2 The provisions of Article 93 of the Revised Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act apply to expenses required for the old-old medical care benefit under the provisions of the Revised Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act provided on or after the item (iv) Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern expenses required for the old-old medical care benefit under the provisions of the Former Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act provided before the item (iv) Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-1: この条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-5031-66/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5031-66/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5031-66/art-7 - suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-1: 第六十七条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第六十七条第一項 (Article 67, paragraph (1)), art-67/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-67/par-1 - suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-1: 附則第一条第四号 → 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 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iv)), suppl-5031-66/art-1/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5031-66/art-1/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5031-66/art-1/par-1/item-4 - suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-1: 次項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第七条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (2)), suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-2 - suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-2: 新高確法第九十三条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十三条 (Article 93), art-93 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-93 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-93 ## 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-5031-66/art-1/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5031-66/art-1/par-1/item-4 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第七条第一項（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5031-66/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5031-66/art-7/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-20261019T112331-025, 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