# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十六条の三 (Article 16-3) - 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: 第十六条の三 (Article 16-3)（照合等の禁止） — address `art-16-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-3 - 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. --- ### 第十六条の三（照合等の禁止） — (Prohibition of Collation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-3 **第一項** 前条第一項の規定により匿名医療保険等関連情報の提供を受け、これを利用する者（以下「匿名医療保険等関連情報利用者」という。）は、匿名医療保険等関連情報を取り扱うに当たつては、当該匿名医療保険等関連情報の作成に用いられた医療保険等関連情報に係る本人を識別するために、当該医療保険等関連情報から削除された記述等（文書、図画若しくは電磁的記録（電磁的方式（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式をいう。）で作られる記録をいう。）に記載され、若しくは記録され、又は音声、動作その他の方法を用いて表された一切の事項をいう。）若しくは匿名医療保険等関連情報の作成に用いられた加工の方法に関する情報を取得し、又は当該匿名医療保険等関連情報を他の情報と照合してはならない。 art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-3/par-1 A person who receives and uses anonymized medical data, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as a "user of anonymized medical data, etc. related information"), in handling the anonymized medical data, etc. related information, in order to identify the principal pertaining to the medical insurance related information used to prepare the anonymized medical data, etc. related information, must not obtain information on descriptions, etc. (meaning any and all matters stated or recorded in a document, drawing, or electronic or magnetic record (meaning a record made in an electronic or magnetic form (meaning an electronic form, a magnetic form, or any other form that cannot be recognized by human perception)), or expressed by using sound, motion, or any other method) deleted from the medical insurance related information or information on the processing method used to prepare the anonymized medical data, etc. related information, or cross-check the anonymized medical data, etc. related information with other information. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16-3/par-1: 前条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条の二第一項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (1)), art-16-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-2/par-1 ## 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 第十六条の二第一項（国民保健の向上のための匿名医療保険等関連情報の利用又は提供） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-2/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条の八第一項（是正命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-8/par-1 --- ## 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 - 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