# 健康保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act — 第六十一条 (Article 61)

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- Law: 健康保険法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act), 大正十五年勅令第二百四十三号
- English title "Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act": claude-opus-5-5
- Kind: ImperialOrder — 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: 第六十一条 (Article 61)（市町村が処理する事務等） — address `art-61`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第六十一条（市町村が処理する事務等） — Affairs Handled by Municipalities
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<sup>art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61</sup>

**第一項**  法第二百三条第一項の規定により、厚生労働大臣が指定する地域に居住する日雇特例被保険者（日雇特例被保険者であった者を含む。以下同じ。）に係る次に掲げる事務は、当該地域をその区域に含む市町村（地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市にあっては、区又は総合区とする。）の長が行うものとする。
<sup>art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-1</sup>
Pursuant to Article 203, paragraph (1) of the Act, the following affairs concerning specially-insured day laborers (including persons who were specially-insured day laborers; the same applies hereinafter) residing in an area designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare are to be performed by the head of the municipality whose district includes that area (in the case of a designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act, the ward or general ward):
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  **一**  日雇特例被保険者手帳の交付及び収受その他日雇特例被保険者手帳に関する事務
  <sup>art-61/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-1/item-1</sup>
  the issuance and receipt of specially-insured day laborer's insurance books and other affairs concerning specially-insured day laborer's insurance books;
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  **二**  介護保険第二号被保険者である日雇特例被保険者及びそれ以外の日雇特例被保険者の把握に関する事務
  <sup>art-61/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-1/item-2</sup>
  affairs concerning ascertaining which specially-insured day laborers are item (ii) insured persons and which are other specially-insured day laborers.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  法第二百三条第二項の規定により、協会は、前項に規定する地域をその区域に含む市町村に対し、当該地域に居住する日雇特例被保険者に係る次に掲げる事務を委託するものとする。
<sup>art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-2</sup>
Pursuant to Article 203, paragraph (2) of the Act, JHIA is to entrust to the municipalities whose districts include the area prescribed in the preceding paragraph the following affairs concerning specially-insured day laborers residing in that area:
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  **一**  受給資格者票の発行及び受給資格者票への確認の表示その他受給資格者票に関する事務
  <sup>art-61/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-2/item-1</sup>
  the issuance of qualified recipient cards, the indication of confirmation on qualified recipient cards, and other affairs concerning qualified recipient cards;
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  **二**  特別療養費受給票の交付その他特別療養費受給票に関する事務
  <sup>art-61/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-2/item-2</sup>
  the issuance of special medical expense cards and other affairs concerning special medical expense cards;
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  **三**  保険給付（埋葬料の支給を除く。）を行うために必要な保険料の納付状況の確認に関する事務及び被扶養者に係る保険給付に関する被扶養者の確認に関する事務
  <sup>art-61/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-2/item-3</sup>
  affairs concerning the confirmation of the payment status of premiums necessary for providing insurance benefits (excluding the provision of burial charges) and affairs concerning the confirmation of dependents regarding insurance benefits relating to dependents.
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**第三項**  第一項の場合又は前項の規定により委託された事務を市町村が行う場合においては、法の規定中これらの項に規定する事務に係る厚生労働大臣又は協会に関する規定は、それぞれ市町村長（特別区の区長を含むものとし、地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市にあっては、区長又は総合区長とする。以下この項において同じ。）又は市町村に関する規定として市町村長又は市町村に適用があるものとする。
<sup>art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-3</sup>
Where, in the case referred to in paragraph (1) or where a municipality carries out the affairs entrusted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of the Act concerning the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or JHIA with respect to the affairs prescribed in those paragraphs are to apply to the mayor of the municipality or the municipality as provisions concerning the mayor of the municipality (including the mayor of a special ward, and, for a designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act, the mayor of a ward or the mayor of a consolidated ward; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) or the municipality, respectively.
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## Cites
- art-61/par-1: 法第二百三条第一項 → 健康保険法 第二百三条第一項 (Article 203, paragraph (1)), art-203/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-203/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 211AC0000000070)
- art-61/par-1: 地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection
- art-61/par-2: 法第二百三条第二項 → 健康保険法 第二百三条第二項 (Article 203, paragraph (2)), art-203/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-203/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 211AC0000000070)
- art-61/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法施行令 第六十一条第一項 (Article 61, paragraph (1)), art-61/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-1
- art-61/par-3: 第一項 → 健康保険法施行令 第六十一条第一項 (Article 61, paragraph (1)), art-61/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-1
- art-61/par-3: 前項 → 健康保険法施行令 第六十一条第二項 (Article 61, paragraph (2)), art-61/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-2
- art-61/par-3: 地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection
- art-61/par-3: この項 → 健康保険法施行令 第六十一条第三項 (Article 61, paragraph (3)), art-61/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-3

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 健康保険法施行令 第六十一条第二項（市町村が処理する事務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-2
- 健康保険法施行令 第六十一条第三項（市町村が処理する事務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-61/par-3
- 健康保険法施行令 第六十二条第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-62/par-1

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-06
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/215IO0000000243/20261001_508CO0000000276), retrieved 2026-11-06
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-019, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch health-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-019, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-020, translated 2026-11-08
- This site's parser, version 229 — 健康保険法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06