# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百七十条 (Article 170)

- 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: 第百七十条 (Article 170) — address `art-170`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-170
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-170
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### 第百七十条
<sup>art-170 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-170 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-170</sup>

**第一項**  機構の役員が次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、二十万円以下の過料に処する。
<sup>art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-170/par-1</sup>
If an officer of the Organization falls under any of the following items, the officer is punished by a civil fine of not more than 200,000 yen:
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一**  この法律により厚生労働大臣の認可又は承認を受けなければならない場合において、その認可又は承認を受けなかつたとき。
  <sup>art-170/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-170/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-170/par-1/item-1</sup>
  failure to obtain the approval or recognition of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare when such approval or recognition is required pursuant to this Act;
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **二**  第百四十九条の規定に違反して業務上の余裕金を運用したとき。
  <sup>art-170/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-170/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-170/par-1/item-2</sup>
  when the surplus funds in the course of business have been invested in violation of the provisions of Article 149.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第二項**  医師、歯科医師、薬剤師若しくは手当を行つた者又はこれを使用する者が、第六十一条第一項の規定による報告若しくは診療録、帳簿書類その他の物件の提示を命ぜられ、正当な理由がなくこれに従わず、又は同項の規定による当該職員の質問に対して、正当な理由がなく答弁せず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をしたときは、十万円以下の過料に処する。
<sup>art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-170/par-2</sup>
When a medical practitioner, dental practitioner, pharmacist, or person who has provided medical care or their employer fails to comply with an order to make a report or to present medical records, books and documents, or any other articles under the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (1) without justifiable grounds, or fails to answer a question asked by the relevant official under the provisions of the same paragraph without justifiable grounds, or gives a false answer, the person is punished by a civil fine of not more than 100,000 yen.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-170/par-1/item-2: 第百四十九条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百四十九条 (Article 149), art-149 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-149
- art-170/par-2: 第六十一条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第六十一条第一項 (Article 61, paragraph (1)), art-61/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-61/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 附則第十一条第二項（病床転換助成事業に係る機構の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-11/par-2

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## 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