①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when the Minister finds it necessary in connection with the status as an insured person or a premium, request a government agency, a National Pension Affairs Association prescribed in Article 109, paragraph (2), a National Pension Fund, the National Pension Fund Association, the Agricultural Pension Fund, Independent Administrative Agency, a mutual aid association, etc., a health insurance society, or a National Health Insurance society to allow inspection of necessary documents or to provide materials, or request a bank, trust company, or other institution, or the spouse or head of household of an insured person, etc., or another person concerned, to make a report, concerning the name and address, the individual number (meaning the individual number prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013); the same applies in the following paragraph), the dates of acquisition and loss of status, the state of payment of premiums or contributions, and other matters, of an insured person or a person who had been an insured person (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "insured persons, etc."), a member or former member of a National Pension Fund, an insured person or former insured person of the farmers' pension, a member or former member subject to the provisions concerning short-term benefits under the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act or the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act, a member or former member subject to the provisions concerning short-term benefits under the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act, or an insured person or former insured person of Health Insurance or National Health Insurance.

②The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when the Minister finds it necessary in connection with a disposition concerning a pension benefit or a premium, request a government agency, a mutual aid association, etc., a mutual aid association prescribed in Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or a health insurance society to allow inspection of necessary documents or to provide materials, or request a bank, trust company, or other institution, or the employer of an insured person, or another person concerned, to make a report, concerning: the state of assets or income of a person entitled to receive a benefit, an insured person, or the insured person's spouse or head of household; the state of payment to a person entitled to receive a benefit of an insurance benefit paid as a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or of a benefit specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 36-2, paragraph (1), item (i); the expected date of childbirth of an insured person; or the name and address, the individual number, and other matters of a person entitled to receive, or a person who had been entitled to receive, a benefit specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 89, paragraph (1), item (i), a person who receives, or received, assistance specified by Ministerial Order prescribed in item (ii) of that paragraph (excluding assistance specified by Ministerial Order), a person who is admitted, or had been admitted, to a facility specified by Ministerial Order prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph (excluding a facility specified by Ministerial Order), a person who receives assistance specified by Ministerial Order prescribed in Article 90, paragraph (1), item (ii), or a dependent under the provisions of the Acts listed in Article 7, paragraph (6), item (i) and items (iv) through (vi) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (Act No. 123 of 1997).

③The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when the Minister finds it necessary in connection with the status as an insured person or a premium, request an employer to make the provisions of this Act known to persons employed by the employer, and to provide other necessary cooperation.