# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百八条 (Article 108) - 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: 第百八条 (Article 108)（普通徴収に係る保険料の納付義務） — address `art-108` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-108 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-108 - 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. --- ### 第百八条（普通徴収に係る保険料の納付義務） — (Obligation to Pay Insurance Premiums Pertaining to General Collection) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-108 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-108 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-108 **第一項** 被保険者は、市町村がその者の保険料を普通徴収の方法によつて徴収しようとする場合においては、当該保険料を納付しなければならない。 art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-108/par-1 Insured must pay the insurance premiums when a Municipality intends to collect the person's insurance premiums by the method of general collection. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 世帯主は、市町村が当該世帯に属する被保険者の保険料を普通徴収の方法によつて徴収しようとする場合において、当該保険料を連帯して納付する義務を負う。 art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-108/par-2 When a Municipality intends to collect insurance premiums of an insured belonging to a household by the method of general collection, the Householder is liable to jointly and severally pay the insurance premiums. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a Municipality intends to collect insurance premiums of a insured belonging to a household by the method of general collection, the Householder is liable to jointly and severally pay the insurance premiums." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **第三項** 配偶者の一方は、市町村が被保険者たる他方の保険料を普通徴収の方法によつて徴収しようとする場合において、当該保険料を連帯して納付する義務を負う。 art-108/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-108/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-108/par-3 If a Municipality intends to collect insurance premiums of the other party that is an insured by the method of general collection, one of the spouses is liable to pay the insurance premiums jointly and severally. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a Municipality intends to collect insurance premiums of the other party that is a insured by the method of general collection, one of the spouses is liable to pay the insurance premiums jointly and severally." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## 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 108, paragraph (2) — 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 108, paragraph (3) — 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