# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百二十三条 (Article 123)

- 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: 第百二十三条 (Article 123)（通知） — address `art-123`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-123
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-123
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### 第百二十三条（通知） — (Notification)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-123 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-123 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-123</sup>

    **第一項**  後期高齢者医療広域連合は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、機構に対し、各年度における保険納付対象額その他厚生労働省令で定める事項を通知しなければならない。
    <sup>art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-123/par-1</sup>
    Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older must notify the Organization of the amount subject to insurance payment in each fiscal year and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **第二項**  後期高齢者医療広域連合は、前項の規定による通知の事務を国保連合会に委託することができる。
    <sup>art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-123/par-2</sup>
    The Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may delegate the affairs concerning the notification under the preceding paragraph to the NHI Federations.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-123/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十三条第一項 (Article 123, paragraph (1)), art-123/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-123/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 第百二十三条第二項（通知） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-123/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-20261019T112331-004, 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
