# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十七条 (Article 17) - 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: 第十七条 (Article 17)（機構等への委託） — address `art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条（機構等への委託） — Entrustment to the Organization, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、第十六条第一項に規定する調査及び分析並びに第十六条の二第一項の規定による利用又は提供に係る事務の全部又は一部を医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法（昭和二十三年法律第百二十九号）による医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構（以下「機構」という。）又は国民健康保険法第四十五条第五項に規定する国民健康保険団体連合会（以下「国保連合会」という。）その他厚生労働省令で定める者（次条において「機構等」という。）に委託することができる。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may entrust the investigation and analysis prescribed in Article 16, paragraph (1) and the affairs pertaining to the use or provision under Article 16-2, paragraph (1), in whole or in part, to the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization under the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization Act (Act No. 129 of 1948) (hereinafter referred to as the "Organization"), the Federation of National Health Insurance Associations prescribed in Article 45, paragraph (5) of the National Health Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as the "NHI federation"), or other persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as the "Organization, etc." in the following Article). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-17/par-1: 第十六条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16/par-1 - art-17/par-1: 第十六条の二第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条の二第一項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (1)), art-16-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-2/par-1 - art-17/par-1: 国民健康保険法第四十五条第五項 → 国民健康保険法 第四十五条第五項 (Article 45, paragraph (5)), art-45/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-45/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-45/par-5 - art-17/par-1: 次条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2), art-17-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十七条の二第一項（手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2/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-20261019T112331-001, 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