The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to conduct a necessary statistical survey concerning the actual state of payment of premiums relating to an insured person, a person who had been an insured person, or a person entitled to receive a benefit, and other matters specified by Ministerial Order, in order to achieve the purpose set out in Article 1.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when the Minister finds it necessary in connection with the statistical survey prescribed in the preceding paragraph, request a government agency to provide necessary information.
厚生労働大臣は、前項に規定する統計調査に関し必要があると認めるときは、官公署に対し、必要な情報の提供を求めることができる。
In requesting the provision of information under the preceding paragraph, the Minister is to request the provision of information by a method that does not allow identification of the person surveyed.
前項の規定により情報の提供を求めるに当たつては、被調査者を識別することができない方法による情報の提供を求めるものとする。