# 健康保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act — 第九条 (Article 9)

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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: 第九条 (Article 9)（定足数） — address `art-9`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-9
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### 第九条（定足数） — Quorum
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-9</sup>

  **第一項**  組合会は、組合会議員の定数（第十一条の規定により議決権を行使することができない組合会議員の数を除く。）の半数以上が出席しなければ、議事を開き、議決をすることができない。
  <sup>art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-9/par-1</sup>
  A society meeting may not open proceedings or adopt a resolution unless at least half of the fixed number of society meeting members (excluding the number of society meeting members who cannot exercise voting rights under Article 11) are present.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-9/par-1: 第十一条 → 健康保険法施行令 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-11

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 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
