# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百四十八条 (Article 148)
- 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: 第百四十八条 (Article 148)（政府保証） — address `art-148`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-148
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-148
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### 第百四十八条（政府保証） — (Government Guarantee)
caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System
art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-148
**第一項** 政府は、法人に対する政府の財政援助の制限に関する法律（昭和二十一年法律第二十四号）第三条の規定にかかわらず、国会の議決を経た金額の範囲内で、機構による前期高齢者交付金、後期高齢者交付金及び出産育児交付金の円滑な交付のために必要があると認めるときは、前条の規定による機構の長期借入金、短期借入金又は債券に係る債務について、必要と認められる期間の範囲において、保証することができる。
art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-148/par-1
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3 of the Act on Restrictions on Financial Assistance by the Government to Corporations (Act No. 24 of 1946), the government may, within the amount approved by a resolution of the National Diet, when it finds it necessary for the smooth granting of the Young-Old Subsidies, the Old-Old Subsidies and the childbirth and childcare grants by the Organization, guarantee obligations pertaining to the long-term borrowings, short-term borrowings or bonds of the Organization pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, within the period found to be necessary.
machine translation, not official
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## Cites
- art-148/par-1: 法人に対する政府の財政援助の制限に関する法律（昭和二十一年法律第二十四号）第三条 → e-Gov law 321AC0000000024, 第三条 (Article 3), art-3 — not held in this collection
- art-148/par-1: 前条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百四十七条 (Article 147), art-147 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-147
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## 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-20261019T112331-005, 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