①If there is a person who is delinquent in payment of insurance premiums or any other money to be collected by the due date pursuant to the provisions of this Act (hereinafter referred to as "insurance premiums, etc." except in Article 204-2, paragraph (1) and Article 204-6, paragraph (1)) (hereinafter referred to as "person delinquent in payment"), the insurer (meaning JHIA if the person is an insured person with optional and continued coverage under the health insurance program administered by JHIA, if the person is an insured person under the health insurance program administered by JHIA or is a specially-insured day laborer who must pay the money to be collected, pursuant to the provisions of Article 58, Article 74, paragraph (2), and Article 109, paragraph (2) (including cases where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis to Article 149), or if JHIA succeeded to the rights of a health insurance society that is extinct due to dissolution, pursuant to the provisions of Article 26, paragraph (4) and there are uncollected insurance premiums, etc. of the health insurance society, and a health insurance society if the insured person is under the health insurance program administered by the health insurance society, or otherwise, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and paragraph (1) of the following Article) must demand payment thereof and designate a due date; provided, however, that this does not apply when the insurance premiums are collected pursuant to the provisions of Article 172.

②When intending to make a demand pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the insurer issues a written demand to the person obliged to pay.

③The time limit specified in the written demand referred to in the preceding paragraph must be a day after the lapse of 10 days or more from the day on which the written demand is issued; provided, however, that this does not apply if any of the items in Article 172 is applicable.

④If a person obliged to pay falls under any of the following items, the insurer may effect a disposition as governed by the same rules as the disposition of national tax delinquency, or may request the municipality (including special wards, and a ward or administratively consolidated ward of a city designated under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947); the same applies in paragraph (6)) in which the person liable for payment is domiciled or in which the person's assets are located to effect the disposition against the person.

⑤When JHIA or a health insurance society effects a disposition governed by the same rules as the disposition of national tax delinquency pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, authorized for the disposition must be obtained from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑥When receiving a demand to effect a disposition pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4), a municipality may do so as governed by the same rules as municipal tax. In this case, the insurer must deliver an amount equivalent to 0.04% of the money to be collected to the municipality.