# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十六条の六 (Article 16-6) - 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: 第十六条の六 (Article 16-6)（利用者の義務） — address `art-16-6` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-6 - 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. --- ### 第十六条の六（利用者の義務） — (Obligations of Users) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-6 **第一項** 匿名医療保険等関連情報利用者又は匿名医療保険等関連情報利用者であつた者は、匿名医療保険等関連情報の利用に関して知り得た匿名医療保険等関連情報の内容をみだりに他人に知らせ、又は不当な目的に利用してはならない。 art-16-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-6/par-1 A person who is or was a user of anonymized medical data related to medical insurance, etc. must not disclose the anonymized medical data related to medical insurance, etc. acquired in relation to the use of the anonymized medical data related to medical insurance, etc. to other persons without justifiable grounds or use the anonymized medical data related to medical insurance, etc. for an unjust purpose. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十七条の二第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-167-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-167-2/par-1/item-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