# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-5051-31/art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-5051-31/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-8 **第一項** 第一号施行日前に第一号改正前高確法第九条の規定により定められた都道府県医療費適正化計画（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第九条第一項に規定する都道府県医療費適正化計画をいう。以下この条において同じ。）は、第一号施行日から令和六年三月三十一日までの間は、第一号改正後高確法第九条の規定により定められた都道府県医療費適正化計画とみなす。 suppl-5051-31/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-8/par-1 A prefectural plan for the optimization of medical expenses (meaning the prefectural plan for the optimization of medical expenses prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) established pursuant to the provisions of Article 9 of the item (i) Pre-amendment Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act before the item (i) Effective Date is deemed, during the period from the item (i) Effective Date until March 31, 2024, to be a prefectural plan for the optimization of medical expenses established pursuant to the provisions of Article 9 of the item (i) Amended Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5051-31/art-8/par-1: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第九条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-9/par-1 - suppl-5051-31/art-8/par-1: この条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-5051-31/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-8 - suppl-5051-31/art-8/par-1: 第一号改正後高確法第九条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-9 ## Cited by 3 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一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 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-5051-31/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-7/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-31/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-31/art-8/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-20261019T112331-027, 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