# 健康保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act — 第七十二条 (Article 72)

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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: 第七十二条 (Article 72)（承認健康保険組合の要件） — address `art-72`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第七十二条（承認健康保険組合の要件） — Requirements for Approved Health Insurance Societies
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-72</sup>

**第一項**  法附則第八条第一項の政令で定める要件は、介護保険第二号被保険者である被保険者（特定被保険者を含む。）に関する保険料額を一般保険料等額と特別介護保険料額の合算額とすることについて当該健康保険組合の組合会において組合会議員の定数の三分の二以上の多数により議決していることとする。
<sup>art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-72/par-1</sup>
The requirements specified by Cabinet Order as referred to in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act are that the society meeting of the health insurance society concerned has resolved, by a majority of two-thirds or more of the fixed number of society meeting members, to make the amount of premium for insured persons who are item (ii) insured persons (including specified insured persons) the total sum of the amount of general premium, etc. and the amount of special long-term care insurance premium.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-72/par-1: 法附則第八条第一項 → 健康保険法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 211AC0000000070)

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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-20261106T164949-022, 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