# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百五十二条 (Article 152) - 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: 第百五十二条 (Article 152)（報告の徴収等） — address `art-152` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-152 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-152 - 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. --- ### 第百五十二条（報告の徴収等） — (Collection of Reports) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-152 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-152 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-152 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事は、機構又は第百四十条の規定による委託を受けた者（以下「受託者」という。）について、高齢者医療制度関係業務に関し必要があると認めるときは、その業務又は財産の状況に関する報告を徴し、又は当該職員に実地にその状況を検査させることができる。ただし、受託者に対しては、当該受託業務の範囲内に限る。 art-152/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-152/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-152/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the prefectural governor may, when finding it necessary in relation to the services related to the medical care system for the elderly, collect reports on the status of the services or property of the Organization or a person entrusted pursuant to the provisions of Article 140 (hereinafter referred to as an "entrusted party"), or have the relevant officials inspect the status on site; provided, however, that with regard to an entrusted party, this is limited to the scope of the entrusted services. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第十六条の七第二項の規定は前項の規定による検査について、同条第三項の規定は前項の規定による権限について、それぞれ準用する。 art-152/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-152/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-152/par-2 The provisions of Article 16-7, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the inspection under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 都道府県知事は、機構につき高齢者医療制度関係業務に関し医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法第三十九条の規定による処分が行われる必要があると認めるとき、又は機構の役員につき高齢者医療制度関係業務に関し同法第十四条第三項若しくは第四項の規定による処分が行われる必要があると認めるときは、理由を付して、その旨を厚生労働大臣に通知しなければならない。 art-152/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-152/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-152/par-3 When a prefectural governor finds it necessary that a disposition under the provisions of Article 39 of the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization Act be made with regard to the Organization in relation to the services related to the medical care system for the elderly, or finds it necessary that a disposition under the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (3) or (4) of the same Act be made with regard to an officer of the Organization in relation to the services related to the medical care system for the elderly, the prefectural governor must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect, stating the reasons. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-152/par-1: 第百四十条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百四十条 (Article 140), art-140 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-140 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-140 - art-152/par-2: 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-152/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十二条第一項 (Article 152, paragraph (1)), art-152/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-152/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-152/par-1 - art-152/par-2: 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 第百五十二条第二項（報告の徴収等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-152/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-152/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十五条第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-165/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-168/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-168/par-2 --- ## 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