# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百六十七条の二 (Article 167-2) - 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: 第百六十七条の二 (Article 167-2) — address `art-167-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-167-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-167-2 - 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. --- ### 第百六十七条の二 art-167-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-167-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-167-2 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、一年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五十万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-167-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-167-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-167-2/par-1 A person who falls under any of the following items is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than 500,000 yen, or both: machine translation, not official **一** 第十六条の六の規定に違反して、匿名医療保険等関連情報の利用に関して知り得た匿名医療保険等関連情報の内容をみだりに他人に知らせ、又は不当な目的に利用した者 art-167-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-167-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-167-2/par-1/item-1 a person who, in violation of the provisions of Article 16-6, has disclosed the content of anonymized medical data related to medical insurance, etc. acquired in relation to the use of the anonymized medical data related to medical insurance, etc. to another person without justifiable grounds, or used the information for an unjust purpose; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第十六条の八の規定による命令に違反した者 art-167-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-167-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-167-2/par-1/item-2 a person who has violated an order issued under the provisions of Article 16-8. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-167-2/par-1/item-1: 第十六条の六 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条の六 (Article 16-6), art-16-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-6 - art-167-2/par-1/item-2: 第十六条の八 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条の八 (Article 16-8), art-16-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-8 ## Cited by 2 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 第百六十九条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-169-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-169-2/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十九条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-169-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-169-3/par-1 --- ## 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