# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百四十四条 (Article 144)

- 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: 第百四十四条 (Article 144)（予算等の認可） — address `art-144`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-144
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-144
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### 第百四十四条（予算等の認可） — (Approval of Budgets)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-144 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-144 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-144</sup>

**第一項**  機構は、高齢者医療制度関係業務に関し、毎事業年度、予算、事業計画及び資金計画を作成し、当該事業年度の開始前に、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。
<sup>art-144/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-144/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-144/par-1</sup>
The Organization must prepare a budget, business plan, and funding plan for each business year with regard to the operations related to the medical care system for the elderly, and obtain the authorization of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prior to the commencement of the relevant business year. The same applies when making any change to these.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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, 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