Supplementary Provisions, Article 3-2Regional Health Insurance Societies
第三条の二（地域型健康保険組合）
A health insurance society established by a merger referred to in Article 23, paragraph (3) or a health insurance society that remains after a merger falling under all of the following requirements (hereinafter referred to as "regional health insurance society " in this Article) may determine unequal general insurance rates in the range prescribed in Article 160, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis to paragraph (13) of the same paragraph within the fiscal year in which the merger occurred and the subsequent five years:
all of the establishments of the health insurance society before the merger are located in the same prefecture; and
合併前の健康保険組合の設立事業所がいずれも同一都道府県の区域にあること。
the merger includes a society specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a designated health insurance society prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1), a health insurance society whose number of insured persons has become less than the number prescribed by Cabinet Order referred to in Article 11, paragraph (1) or (2), or another health insurance society which is found to require a stable operational foundation.
Authorization must be obtained from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for the determination of the insurance premium rate referred to in the preceding paragraph.
前項の一般保険料率の決定は、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。
The authorization procedure for the general insurance premium rate of a regional health insurance society and other necessary matters concerning a regional health insurance society are specified by Cabinet Order.
地域型健康保険組合の一般保険料率の認可の手続その他地域型健康保険組合に関して必要な事項は、政令で定める。