# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2)

- 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: 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2)（手数料） — address `art-17-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2
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### 第十七条の二（手数料） — (Fees)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2</sup>

  **第一項**  匿名医療保険等関連情報利用者は、実費を勘案して政令で定める額の手数料を国（前条の規定により厚生労働大臣からの委託を受けて、機構等が第十六条の二第一項の規定による匿名医療保険等関連情報の提供に係る事務の全部を行う場合にあつては、機構等）に納めなければならない。
  <sup>art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2/par-1</sup>
  Users of anonymized medical data must pay a fee in the amount specified by Cabinet Order in consideration of the actual costs to the national government (when the Organization, etc. conducts all of the affairs related to the provision of anonymized medical data under Article 16-2, paragraph (1) upon entrustment from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, the Organization, etc.).
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  厚生労働大臣は、前項の手数料を納めようとする者が都道府県その他の国民保健の向上のために特に重要な役割を果たす者として政令で定める者であるときは、政令で定めるところにより、当該手数料を減額し、又は免除することができる。
  <sup>art-17-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2/par-2</sup>
  If a person who intends to pay the fee set forth in the preceding paragraph is a prefecture or any other person specified by Cabinet Order as a person who plays particularly important roles in improving the health of the people, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may grant the person a reduction of or exemption from the fee pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第三項**  第一項の規定により機構等に納められた手数料は、機構等の収入とする。
  <sup>art-17-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2/par-3</sup>
  A fee paid to the Organization, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) is to be the revenue of the Organization, etc.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-17-2/par-1: 前条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17
- art-17-2/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-17-2/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十七条の二第一項 (Article 17-2, paragraph (1)), art-17-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2/par-1
- art-17-2/par-3: 第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十七条の二第一項 (Article 17-2, paragraph (1)), art-17-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2/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 第十七条第一項（機構等への委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17/par-1
- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十七条の二第二項（手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2/par-2
- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十七条の二第三項（手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17-2/par-3

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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-20261019T112331-001, 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
