# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百五十六条 (Article 156) - 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: 第百五十六条 (Article 156)（議決権の特例） — address `art-156` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-156 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-156 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条（議決権の特例） — (Special Provisions for Voting Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-156 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-156 **第一項** 国保連合会が前条の規定により行う業務（以下「高齢者医療関係業務」という。）については、国民健康保険法第八十六条において準用する同法第二十九条の規定にかかわらず、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、規約をもつて議決権に関する特別の定めをすることができる。 art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-156/par-1 With regard to the business conducted by NHI federations pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "medical services for the elderly"), notwithstanding the provisions of Article 29 of the National Health Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 86 of the same Act, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, special provisions concerning voting rights may be established by the constitution. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "With regard to the business conducted by NHI federations pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "medical services for the elderly"), notwithstanding the provisions of Article 29 of the National Health Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 86 of the same Act, as specified by Order of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, special provisions concerning voting rights may be established by the constitution." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## Cites - art-156/par-1: 前条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十五条 (Article 155), art-155 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155 - art-156/par-1: 国民健康保険法第八十六条 → 国民健康保険法 第八十六条 (Article 86), art-86 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-86 - art-156/par-1: 同法第二十九条 → 国民健康保険法 第二十九条 (Article 29), art-29 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-29 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十二条第一項（国保連合会に対する監督） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-162/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 156, 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