# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百二十四条の五 (Article 124-5) - 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: 第百二十四条の五 (Article 124-5)（出産育児関係事務費拠出金の徴収及び納付義務） — address `art-124-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-124-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-124-5 - 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. --- ### 第百二十四条の五（出産育児関係事務費拠出金の徴収及び納付義務） — (Collection and Payment Obligation of Contributions for Administrative Expenses Related to Childbirth and Childcare) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-124-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-124-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-124-5 **第一項** 機構は、第百三十九条第一項第三号に掲げる業務に関する事務の処理に要する費用に充てるため、年度ごとに、保険者から、出産育児関係事務費拠出金を徴収する。 art-124-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-124-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-124-5/par-1 The Organization collects contributions for childbirth and childcare related office expenses from Insurers each fiscal year in order to cover the expenses required for the processing of affairs concerning the services listed in Article 139, paragraph (1), item (iii). machine translation, not official **第二項** 保険者は、出産育児関係事務費拠出金を納付する義務を負う。 art-124-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-124-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-124-5/par-2 An insurer is liable to pay contributions for childbirth and childcare related office expenses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-124-5/par-1: 第百三十九条第一項第三号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十九条第一項第三号 (Article 139, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-139/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-139/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-139/par-1/item-3 ## 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 第百二十四条の六第一項（出産育児関係事務費拠出金の額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-124-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-124-6/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十四条の九第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-124-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-124-9/par-2 --- ## 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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T105826-005, 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