# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百五十一条 (Article 151)

- 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: 第百五十一条 (Article 151)（厚生労働省令への委任） — address `art-151`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-151
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-151
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### 第百五十一条（厚生労働省令への委任） — (Delegation to the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-151 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-151 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-151</sup>

**第一項**  この章に定めるもののほか、高齢者医療制度関係業務に係る機構の財務及び会計に関し必要な事項は、厚生労働省令で定める。
<sup>art-151/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-151/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-151/par-1</sup>
Beyond what is provided for in this Chapter, the necessary matters concerning the finance and accounting of the Organization pertaining to the services related to the medical care system for the elderly are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
<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 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T112331-005, 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