# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百四十一条 (Article 141) - 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: 第百四十一条 (Article 141)（業務方法書） — address `art-141` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-141 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-141 - 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. --- ### 第百四十一条（業務方法書） — (Operational Method Statement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-141 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-141 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-141 **第一項** 機構は、高齢者医療制度関係業務に関し、当該業務の開始前に、業務方法書を作成し、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。これを変更するときも、同様とする。 art-141/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-141/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-141/par-1 The Organization, with regard to the operations related to the medical care system for the elderly, must prepare a statement of operational procedures and obtain the authorization of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prior to the commencement of those operations. The same applies when the statement is changed. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の業務方法書に記載すべき事項は、厚生労働省令で定める。 art-141/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-141/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-141/par-2 The particulars to be stated in the statement of operational procedures referred to in the preceding paragraph are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The particulars to be stated in the statement of operational procedures referred to in the preceding paragraph are specified by Order of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## Cites - art-141/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百四十一条第一項 (Article 141, paragraph (1)), art-141/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-141/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-141/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 第百四十一条第二項（業務方法書） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-141/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-141/par-2 --- ## 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 141, 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