# 健康保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act — 第七条 (Article 7)

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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
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- Provision: 第七条 (Article 7)（組合会の招集） — address `art-7`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第七条（組合会の招集） — Convocation of Society Meetings
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<sup>art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-7</sup>

  **第一項**  組合会は、理事長が招集する。組合会議員の定数の三分の一以上の者が会議に付議すべき事項及び招集の理由を記載した書面を理事長に提出して組合会の招集を請求したときは、理事長は、その請求のあった日から二十日以内に組合会を招集しなければならない。
  <sup>art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-1</sup>
  A society meeting is convened by the president. When one-third or more of the fixed number of society meeting members submit to the president a document stating the matters to be submitted to the meeting and the reasons for convening it, and request that a society meeting be convened, the president must convene a society meeting within 20 days from the day of the request.
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  **第二項**  理事長は、規約で定めるところにより、毎年度一回通常組合会を招集しなければならない。
  <sup>art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-2</sup>
  The president must convene an ordinary society meeting once every fiscal year as specified by the constitution.
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  **第三項**  理事長は、必要があるときは、いつでも臨時組合会を招集することができる。
  <sup>art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-3</sup>
  The president may convene an extraordinary society meeting at any time when necessary.
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  **第四項**  理事長は、組合会が成立しないとき、又は理事長において緊急を要すると認めるときは、組合会の議決を経なければならない事項で緊急に行う必要があるものを処分することができる。
  <sup>art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-4</sup>
  When a society meeting cannot be formed, or when the president finds it urgent, the president may dispose of any matter that requires a resolution of a society meeting and that needs to be dealt with urgently.
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  **第五項**  理事長は、前項の規定による処置については、次の組合会においてこれを報告し、その承認を求めなければならない。
  <sup>art-7/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-5</sup>
  The president must report on a measure taken under the preceding paragraph at the next society meeting and seek its approval.
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## Cites
- art-7/par-5: 前項 → 健康保険法施行令 第七条第四項 (Article 7, paragraph (4)), art-7/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-4

## Cited by

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

- 健康保険法施行令 第七条第五項（組合会の招集） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-5
- 健康保険法施行令 第六十条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-60/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-20261106T164949-002, translated 2026-11-07
- 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
