# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百二十五条の二 (Article 125-2) - 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: 第百二十五条の二 (Article 125-2)（高齢者保健事業の市町村への委託） — address `art-125-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-2 - 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. --- ### 第百二十五条の二（高齢者保健事業の市町村への委託） — (Entrustment of Health Services for the Elderly to Municipalities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-125-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-2 **第一項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、当該後期高齢者医療広域連合の広域計画に基づき、高齢者保健事業の一部について、当該後期高齢者医療広域連合に加入する市町村に対し、その実施を委託することができるものとし、当該委託を受けた市町村は、被保険者に対する高齢者保健事業の効果的かつ効率的な実施を図る観点から、その実施に関し、国民健康保険保健事業及び地域支援事業との一体的な実施の在り方を含む基本的な方針を定めるものとする。この場合において、後期高齢者医療広域連合は、当該委託を受けた市町村に対し、委託した高齢者保健事業の実施に必要な範囲内において、自らが保有する被保険者に係る療養に関する情報又は健康診査若しくは保健指導に関する記録の写しその他高齢者保健事業を効果的かつ効率的に実施するために必要な情報として厚生労働省令で定めるものを提供することができる。 art-125-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-2/par-1 A Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may entrust a Municipality that is a member of the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older with the implementation of part of its elderly health services based on the Regional Plan of the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older, and the entrusted Municipality is to, from the viewpoint of ensuring the effective and efficient implementation of the elderly health services for the insured, establish basic policies concerning the implementation of the services, including the ideal way of implementing the services in an integrated manner with national health insurance health services and community support projects. In this case, the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may provide the entrusted Municipality with copies of its own records concerning medical treatment, health checkups, or health guidance pertaining to the insured, and other information specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as necessary for the effective and efficient implementation of the elderly health services, to the extent necessary for the implementation of the entrusted elderly health services. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may entrust a Municipality that is a member of the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older with the implementation of part of its elderly health services based on the Regional Plan of the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older, and the entrusted Municipality is to, from the viewpoint of ensuring the effective and efficient implementation of the elderly health services for the insured, establish basic policies concerning the implementation of the services, including the ideal way of implementing the services in an integrated manner with national health insurance health services and community support projects. In this case, the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may provide the entrusted Municipality with copies of its own records concerning medical treatment, health checkups, or health guidance pertaining to the insured, and other information specified by Order of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as necessary for the effective and efficient implementation of the elderly health services, to the extent necessary for the implementation of the entrusted elderly health services." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **第二項** 前項前段の規定により委託を受けた市町村の職員又は職員であつた者は、高齢者保健事業の実施に関して知り得た個人の秘密を正当な理由がなく漏らしてはならない。 art-125-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-2/par-2 A person who is or was an official of a municipality entrusted pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of the preceding paragraph must not, without justifiable grounds, divulge any individual secrets that have come to their knowledge in relation to the implementation of health services for the elderly. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-125-2/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条の二第一項 (Article 125-2, paragraph (1)), art-125-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-2/par-1 ## Cited by 11 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 第百二十五条第三項（高齢者保健事業） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125/par-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条第四項（高齢者保健事業） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125/par-4 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条第七項第二号（高齢者保健事業） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125/par-7/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125/par-7/item-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条第七項第三号（高齢者保健事業） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125/par-7/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125/par-7/item-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条の二第二項（高齢者保健事業の市町村への委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-2/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条の三第一項（高齢者保健事業に関する情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-3/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条の三第三項（高齢者保健事業に関する情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-3/par-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条の三第五項（高齢者保健事業に関する情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-3/par-5 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条の四第二項（高齢者保健事業の関係機関又は関係団体への委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-4/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十一条第一項（高齢者保健事業等に関する援助等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-131/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-167/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-167/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律), Article 125-2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 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