# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第九十六条 (Article 96) - 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: 第九十六条 (Article 96)（都道府県の負担） — address `art-96` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-96 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-96 - 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. --- ### 第九十六条（都道府県の負担） — (Expenses Borne by Prefectures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-96 **第一項** 都道府県は、政令で定めるところにより、後期高齢者医療広域連合に対し、負担対象総額の十二分の一に相当する額を負担する。 art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-96/par-1 A prefecture, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, bears an amount equivalent to one twelfth of the total amount subject to sharing by a Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 都道府県は、前項に掲げるもののほか、政令で定めるところにより、後期高齢者医療広域連合に対し、高額医療費負担対象額の四分の一に相当する額を負担する。 art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-96/par-2 Beyond what is set forth in the preceding paragraph, a prefecture is to bear an amount equivalent to one fourth of the amount subject to high medical care cost contribution to the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-96/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十六条第一項 (Article 96, paragraph (1)), art-96/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-96/par-1 ## Cited by 4 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 第九十三条第二項（国の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-93/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-93/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十六条第二項（都道府県の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-96/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十七条第一項（都道府県の負担金の減額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-97/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三条第一項（都道府県、市町村及び後期高齢者医療広域連合の補助及び貸付け） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-103/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