# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百四十九条 (Article 149) - 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: 第百四十九条 (Article 149)（余裕金の運用） — address `art-149` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-149 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-149 - 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. --- ### 第百四十九条（余裕金の運用） — (Investment of Surplus Funds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-149 **第一項** 機構は、次の方法によるほか、高齢者医療制度関係業務に係る業務上の余裕金を運用してはならない。 art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-149/par-1 The Organization must not invest any surplus funds that arise in the course of operations pertaining to the services related to the medical care system for the elderly, except by the following methods: machine translation, not official **一** 国債その他厚生労働大臣が指定する有価証券の保有 art-149/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-149/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-149/par-1/item-1 holding of Japanese government bonds and other securities designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 銀行その他厚生労働大臣が指定する金融機関への預金 art-149/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-149/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-149/par-1/item-2 making deposits with banks and other financial institutions designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 信託業務を営む金融機関（金融機関の信託業務の兼営等に関する法律（昭和十八年法律第四十三号）第一条第一項の認可を受けた金融機関をいう。）への金銭信託 art-149/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-149/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-149/par-1/item-3 money trust into financial institutions engaged in trust business (meaning financial institutions that have obtained the authorization under Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Act on Engagement in Trust Business Activities by Financial Institutions (Act No. 43 of 1943)). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-149/par-1/item-3: 金融機関の信託業務の兼営等に関する法律（昭和十八年法律第四十三号）第一条第一項 → e-Gov law 318AC0000000043, 第一条第一項 (Article 1, paragraph (1)), art-1/par-1 — not held in this collection ## 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 第百五十条第一項第二号（協議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-150/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-150/par-1/item-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百七十条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-170/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-170/par-1/item-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 — 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