# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百六十三条 (Article 163) - 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: 第百六十三条 (Article 163)（権限の委任） — address `art-163` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-163 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-163 - 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. --- ### 第百六十三条（権限の委任） — (Delegation of Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-163 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-163 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-163 **第一項** この法律に規定する厚生労働大臣の権限は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、地方厚生局長に委任することができる。 art-163/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-163/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-163/par-1 The authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare provided for in this Act may be delegated to the Director-General of a Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare provided for in this Act may be delegated to the Director-General of a Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **第二項** 前項の規定により地方厚生局長に委任された権限は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、地方厚生支局長に委任することができる。 art-163/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-163/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-163/par-2 The authority delegated to the Director-General of a Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be delegated to the Director-General of a Regional Branch Bureau of Health and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The authority delegated to the Director-General of a Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be delegated to the Director-General of a Regional Branch Bureau of Health and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## Cites - art-163/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十三条第一項 (Article 163, paragraph (1)), art-163/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-163/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-163/par-1 ## 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 第百六十三条第二項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-163/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-163/par-2 --- ## 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 163, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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 163, paragraph (2) — 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