# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百三十七条 (Article 137) - 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: 第百三十七条 (Article 137)（被保険者等に関する調査） — address `art-137` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-137 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-137 - 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. --- ### 第百三十七条（被保険者等に関する調査） — (Investigation of insured) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-137 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-137 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-137 **第一項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、被保険者の資格、後期高齢者医療給付及び保険料に関して必要があると認めるときは、被保険者、被保険者の配偶者若しくは被保険者の属する世帯の世帯主その他その世帯に属する者又はこれらであつた者に対し、文書その他の物件の提出若しくは提示を命じ、又は当該職員に質問させることができる。 art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-137/par-1 If the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older finds it necessary in relation to eligibility as an insured, a medical care benefit for the old-old, and insurance premiums, it may order the insured, the spouse of the insured, or the householder or any other member or former member of the household to which the insured belongs to submit or present a document or any other item, or may have its official ask them questions. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older finds it necessary in relation to eligibility as an insured, an medical care benefit for the old-old, and insurance premiums, it may order the insured, the spouse of the insured, or the householder or any other member or former member of the household to which the insured belongs to submit or present a document or any other item, or may have its official ask them questions." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **第二項** 市町村は、保険料の徴収に関して必要があると認めるときは、被保険者、被保険者の配偶者若しくは被保険者の属する世帯の世帯主その他その世帯に属する者又はこれらであつた者に対し、文書その他の物件の提出若しくは提示を命じ、又は当該職員に質問させることができる。 art-137/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-137/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-137/par-2 A Municipality, when it finds it necessary in relation to the collection of insurance premiums, may order the insured, the spouse of the insured, or the householder or any other member or former member of the household to which the insured belongs to submit or present a document or any other article, or may have its personnel question such person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第十六条の七第二項の規定は前二項の規定による質問について、同条第三項の規定は前二項の規定による権限について、それぞれ準用する。 art-137/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-137/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-137/par-3 The provisions of Article 16-7, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-137/par-3: 第十六条の七第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条の七第二項 (Article 16-7, paragraph (2)), art-16-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-7/par-2 - art-137/par-3: 前二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十七条第一項 (Article 137, paragraph (1)), art-137/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-137/par-1 - art-137/par-3: 前二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十七条第二項 (Article 137, paragraph (2)), art-137/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-137/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-137/par-2 - art-137/par-3: 同条第三項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条の七第三項 (Article 16-7, paragraph (3)), art-16-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-7/par-3 ## Cited by 3 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 第百三十七条第三項（被保険者等に関する調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-137/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-137/par-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百七十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-171/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-171/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百七十一条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-171/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-171/par-3 --- ## 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 137, paragraph (1) — 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