# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百三十五条 (Article 135)

- 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: 第百三十五条 (Article 135)（事業状況の報告） — address `art-135`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-135
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-135
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### 第百三十五条（事業状況の報告） — (Reporting on the Status of Operations)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-135 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-135 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-135</sup>

  **第一項**  後期高齢者医療広域連合又は国保連合会は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、後期高齢者医療に係る事業の状況（後期高齢者医療広域連合にあつては、次項の規定により後期高齢者医療広域連合の長（地方自治法第二百九十一条の十三において準用する同法第二百八十七条の三第二項の規定により長に代えて理事会を置く後期高齢者医療広域連合にあつては、理事会。次項において同じ。）が市町村から報告を受ける事業の状況を含む。）を都道府県知事に報告しなければならない。
  <sup>art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-135/par-1</sup>
  An Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older or the NHI federation must, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, report the status of services pertaining to Old-old Medical Care (in the case of an Association, including the status of services reported by a Municipality pursuant to the provisions of the following paragraph to the head of the Association (in the case of an Association that has a board of directors in place of a head pursuant to the provisions of Article 287-3, paragraph (2) of the Local Autonomy Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 291-13 of that Act, the board of directors; the same applies in the following paragraph)) to the Prefectural Governor.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  市町村は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、後期高齢者医療に係る事業の状況を後期高齢者医療広域連合の長に報告しなければならない。
  <sup>art-135/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-135/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-135/par-2</sup>
  A Municipality, pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must report the status of its services pertaining to Old-Old Healthcare to the head of an Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A Municipality, pursuant to the provisions of a Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must report the status of its services pertaining to Old-Old Healthcare to the head of a Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb</sup>

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## Cites
- art-135/par-1: 次項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十五条第二項 (Article 135, paragraph (2)), art-135/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-135/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-135/par-2
- art-135/par-1: 地方自治法第二百九十一条の十三 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百九十一条の十三 (Article 291-13), art-291-13 — not held in this collection
- art-135/par-1: 同法第二百八十七条の三第二項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百八十七条の三第二項 (Article 287-3, paragraph (2)), art-287-3/par-2 — not held in this collection

## 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 第百三十五条第一項（事業状況の報告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-135/par-1

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## 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 135, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T105826-005, 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
