# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百四十条 (Article 140) - 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: 第百四十条 (Article 140)（業務の委託） — address `art-140` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-140 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-140 - 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. --- ### 第百四十条（業務の委託） — (Entrustment of Operations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-140 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-140 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-140 **第一項** 機構は、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けて、高齢者医療制度関係業務の一部を保険者が加入している団体で厚生労働大臣が定めるものに委託することができる。 art-140/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-140/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-140/par-1 The Organization, with the authorization of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, may entrust part of the operations related to the medical care system for the elderly to an organization which Insurers belong to and which is specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official ## 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 第百三十九条第一項第一号（機構の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-139/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-139/par-1/item-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十二条第一項（報告の徴収等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-152/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-152/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第十一条第二項（病床転換助成事業に係る機構の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-11/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