# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) — address `suppl-5051-48/art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-48/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-48/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条 suppl-5051-48/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-48/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-48/art-19 **第一項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、第十二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（これに基づく命令を含む。）の施行のために必要な条例の制定又は改正その他の行為については、第二号施行日前においても行うことができる。 suppl-5051-48/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-5051-48/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-48/art-19/par-1 The Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may carry out, even before the item (ii) Effective Date, acts such as the enactment or amendment of an Ordinance of the Association that are necessary for the enforcement of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (including orders based thereon) as amended by the provisions of Article 12. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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-5051-48/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-5051-48/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261019T112331-028, 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