# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百五十四条 (Article 154) - 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: 第百五十四条 (Article 154)（審査請求） — address `art-154` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-154 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-154 - 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. --- ### 第百五十四条（審査請求） — (Request for Examination) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-154 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-154 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-154 **第一項** この法律に基づく機構の処分又はその不作為に不服のある者は、厚生労働大臣に対し、審査請求をすることができる。この場合において、厚生労働大臣は、行政不服審査法（平成二十六年法律第六十八号）第二十五条第二項及び第三項、第四十六条第一項及び第二項、第四十七条並びに第四十九条第三項の規定の適用については、機構の上級行政庁とみなす。 art-154/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-154/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-154/par-1 A person who is dissatisfied with a disposition by the Organization based on this Act or its inaction may file an application for examination with the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. In this case, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is deemed to be the superior administrative agency of the Organization for the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 25, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 46, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 47 and Article 49, paragraph (3) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-154/par-1: 行政不服審査法（平成二十六年法律第六十八号）第二十五条第二項 → 行政不服審査法 第二十五条第二項 (Article 25, paragraph (2)), art-25/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-25/par-2 - art-154/par-1: 第三項 → 行政不服審査法 第二十五条第三項 (Article 25, paragraph (3)), art-25/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-25/par-3 - art-154/par-1: 第四十六条第一項 → 行政不服審査法 第四十六条第一項 (Article 46, paragraph (1)), art-46/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-46/par-1 - art-154/par-1: 第二項 → 行政不服審査法 第四十六条第二項 (Article 46, paragraph (2)), art-46/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-46/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-46/par-2 - art-154/par-1: 第四十七条 → 行政不服審査法 第四十七条 (Article 47), art-47 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-47 - art-154/par-1: 第四十九条第三項 → 行政不服審査法 第四十九条第三項 (Article 49, paragraph (3)), art-49/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-49/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-49/par-3 --- ## 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