# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十三条 (Article 13)

- Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号
- English title "Health Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — 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: 第十三条 (Article 13) — address `art-13`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-13
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-13
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### 第十三条
<sup>art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-13</sup>

  **第一項**  第三十一条第一項の規定による認可の申請と同時に健康保険組合の設立の認可の申請を行う場合にあっては、前二条中「適用事業所」とあるのは「適用事業所となるべき事業所」と、「被保険者」とあるのは「被保険者となるべき者」とする。
  <sup>art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-13/par-1</sup>
  If an application for the establishment of a health insurance society is submitted at the same time as an application pursuant to the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1), the phrase "applicable place of business" in the preceding two Articles is replaced with "place that will be an applicable place of business" and "insured persons" with "persons to be insured".
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-13/par-1: 第三十一条第一項 → 健康保険法 第三十一条第一項 (Article 31, paragraph (1)), art-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-31/par-1
- art-13/par-1: 前二条 → 健康保険法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-11
- art-13/par-1: 前二条 → 健康保険法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-12

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10
- This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10