# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第九十七条 (Article 97) - 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: 第九十七条 (Article 97)（都道府県の負担金の減額） — address `art-97` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-97 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-97 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条（都道府県の負担金の減額） — (Reduction of Prefecture's Contribution) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-97 **第一項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合が確保すべき収入を不当に確保しなかつた場合において、国が第九十四条の規定により負担すべき額を減額したときは、都道府県は、政令で定めるところにより、前条の規定により当該後期高齢者医療広域連合に対して負担すべき額を減額することができる。 art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-97/par-1 If a Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older unjustly fails to secure the revenue it should have secured and the national government reduces the amount to be borne pursuant to the provisions of Article 94, the prefecture may reduce the amount to be borne by the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により減額する額は、不当に確保しなかつた額を超えることができない。 art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-97/par-2 The amount to be reduced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may not exceed the amount which was unjustly not secured. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-97/par-1: 第九十四条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十四条 (Article 94), art-94 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-94 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-94 - art-97/par-1: 前条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十六条 (Article 96), art-96 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-96 - art-97/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-97/par-1 ## 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 第九十七条第二項（都道府県の負担金の減額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-97/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 - 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