# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百六十八条 (Article 168) - 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: 第百六十八条 (Article 168) — address `art-168` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-168 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-168 - 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. --- ### 第百六十八条 art-168 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-168 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-168 **第一項** 全国健康保険協会、健康保険組合、国民健康保険組合、共済組合又は日本私立学校振興・共済事業団の役員、清算人又は職員が次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-168/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-168/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-168/par-1 Officers, liquidators, or employees of a Japan Health Insurance Association, health insurance society, national health insurance society, mutual aid association, or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan are punished by a fine of not more than 500000 yen if they fall under any of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第百三十四条第二項の規定による報告をせず、若しくは虚偽の報告をし、又は同項の規定による検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避したとき。 art-168/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-168/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-168/par-1/item-1 when the person has failed to make a report under the provisions of Article 134, paragraph (2) or has made a false report, or has refused, obstructed, or evaded an inspection under the provisions of the same paragraph; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第百四十二条第一項の規定による報告若しくは文書その他の物件の提出をせず、又は虚偽の報告をし、若しくは虚偽の記載をした文書を提出したとき。 art-168/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-168/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-168/par-1/item-2 if the person has failed to submit a report, document, or any other item pursuant to the provisions of Article 142, paragraph (1), or has submitted a false report or document including a false entry. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 機構又は受託者の役員又は職員が、第百五十二条第一項の規定による報告をせず、若しくは虚偽の報告をし、又は同項の規定による検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避したときは、五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-168/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-168/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-168/par-2 When an officer or employee of the Organization or an entrusted party has failed to make a report under the provisions of Article 152, paragraph (1) or has made a false report, or has refused, obstructed, or evaded an inspection under the provisions of the same paragraph, the officer or employee is punished by a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第十六条の七第一項の規定による報告若しくは帳簿書類の提出若しくは提示をせず、若しくは虚偽の報告若しくは虚偽の帳簿書類の提出若しくは提示をし、又は同項の規定による質問に対して答弁をせず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をし、若しくは同項の規定による立入検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避した者は、五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-168/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-168/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-168/par-3 A person who fails to make a report or submit or present books and documents under the provisions of Article 16-7, paragraph (1), or makes a false report or submits or presents false books and documents, or fails to answer or gives a false answer to the questions under the provisions of the same paragraph, or refuses, interferes with, or evades the on-site inspection under the provisions of the same paragraph is punished by a fine of not more than 500000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person who fails to make a report or submit or present books and documents under the provisions of Article 16-7, paragraph (1), or makes a false report or submits or presents false books and documents, or fails to answer or gives a false answer to the questions under the provisions of the same paragraph, or refuses, interferes with, or recuses the on-site inspection under the provisions of the same paragraph is punished by a fine of not more than 500000 yen." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## Cites - art-168/par-1/item-1: 第百三十四条第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十四条第二項 (Article 134, paragraph (2)), art-134/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-134/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-134/par-2 - art-168/par-1/item-2: 第百四十二条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百四十二条第一項 (Article 142, paragraph (1)), art-142/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-142/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-142/par-1 - art-168/par-2: 第百五十二条第一項 → 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-168/par-3: 第十六条の七第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条の七第一項 (Article 16-7, paragraph (1)), art-16-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-7/par-1 ## 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 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第十条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-10/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第十一条第二項（病床転換助成事業に係る機構の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-11/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 168, paragraph (3) — 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 — 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