# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百二十八条 (Article 128) - 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: 第百二十八条 (Article 128)（審査請求） — address `art-128` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-128 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-128 - 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. --- ### 第百二十八条（審査請求） — (Request for Examination) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-128 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-128 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-128 **第一項** 後期高齢者医療給付に関する処分（第五十四条第三項及び第五項の規定による求めに対する処分を含む。）又は保険料その他この章の規定による徴収金（市町村及び後期高齢者医療広域連合が徴収するものに限る。）に関する処分に不服がある者は、後期高齢者医療審査会に審査請求をすることができる。 art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-128/par-1 A person who is dissatisfied with a disposition concerning a medical care benefit for the old-old (including a disposition concerning a request pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraphs (3) and (5)) or a disposition concerning insurance premiums or any other money to be collected pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter (limited to those collected by a Municipality and a Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older) may make a request for examination to the Certification Committee for Old-Old Healthcare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の審査請求は、時効の完成猶予及び更新に関しては、裁判上の請求とみなす。 art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-128/par-2 With regard to postponement of expiry of prescription period and renewal of prescription period, the request for examination referred to in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be a demand by litigation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-128/par-1: 第五十四条第三項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十四条第三項 (Article 54, paragraph (3)), art-54/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-54/par-3 - art-128/par-1: 第五項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十四条第五項 (Article 54, paragraph (5)), art-54/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-54/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-54/par-5 - art-128/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十八条第一項 (Article 128, paragraph (1)), art-128/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-128/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 第百二十八条第二項（審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-128/par-2 --- ## 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