# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百八十条 (Article 180) - 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: 第百八十条 (Article 180)（保険料等の督促及び滞納処分） — address `art-180` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百八十条（保険料等の督促及び滞納処分） — (Demand for Payment of Insurance Premiums and Disposition of Delinquency) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-180 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180 **第一項** 保険料その他この法律の規定による徴収金（第二百四条の二第一項及び第二百四条の六第一項を除き、以下「保険料等」という。）を滞納する者（以下「滞納者」という。）があるときは、保険者等（被保険者が協会が管掌する健康保険の任意継続被保険者である場合、協会が管掌する健康保険の被保険者若しくは日雇特例被保険者であって第五十八条、第七十四条第二項及び第百九条第二項（第百四十九条においてこれらの規定を準用する場合を含む。）の規定による徴収金を納付しなければならない場合又は解散により消滅した健康保険組合の権利を第二十六条第四項の規定により承継した場合であって当該健康保険組合の保険料等で未収のものに係るものがあるときは協会、被保険者が健康保険組合が管掌する健康保険の被保険者である場合は当該健康保険組合、これら以外の場合は厚生労働大臣をいう。以下この条及び次条第一項において同じ。）は、期限を指定して、これを督促しなければならない。ただし、第百七十二条の規定により保険料を徴収するときは、この限りでない。 art-180/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-1 If there is a person who is delinquent in payment of insurance premiums or any other money to be collected by the due date pursuant to the provisions of this Act (hereinafter referred to as "insurance premiums, etc." except in Article 204-2, paragraph (1) and Article 204-6, paragraph (1)) (hereinafter referred to as "person delinquent in payment"), the insurer (meaning JHIA if the person is an insured person with optional and continued coverage under the health insurance program administered by JHIA, if the person is an insured person under the health insurance program administered by JHIA or is a specially-insured day laborer who must pay the money to be collected, pursuant to the provisions of Article 58, Article 74, paragraph (2), and Article 109, paragraph (2) (including cases where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis to Article 149), or if JHIA succeeded to the rights of a health insurance society that is extinct due to dissolution, pursuant to the provisions of Article 26, paragraph (4) and there are uncollected insurance premiums, etc. of the health insurance society, and a health insurance society if the insured person is under the health insurance program administered by the health insurance society, or otherwise, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and paragraph (1) of the following Article) must demand payment thereof and designate a due date; provided, however, that this does not apply when the insurance premiums are collected pursuant to the provisions of Article 172. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If there is a person who is delinquent in payment of insurance premiums or any other money to be collected by the due date pursuant to the provisions of this Act (hereinafter referred to as "insurance premiums, etc." except in Article 204-2, paragraph (1) and Article 204-6, paragraph (1)) (hereinafter referred to as "person delinquent in payment"), the insurer (meaning JHIA if the person is an insured person with optional and continued coverage under the health insurance program administered by JHIA, if the person is an insured person under the health insurance program administered by JHIA or is a specially-insured day laborer who must pay the money to be collected, pursuant to the provisions of Article 58, Article 74, paragraph (2), and Article 109, paragraph (2) (including cases where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis to Article 149), or if JHIA succeeded to the rights of a health insurance society that is extinct due to dissolution, pursuant to the provisions of Article 26, paragraph (4) and there are uncollected insurance premiums, etc. of the health insurance society, and a health insurance society if the insured person is under the health insurance program administered by the health insurance society, or otherwise, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter in this and the following Articles) must demand payment thereof and designate a due date; provided, however, that this does not apply when the insurance premiums are collected pursuant to the provisions of Article 172." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb **第二項** 前項の規定によって督促をしようとするときは、保険者等は、納付義務者に対して、督促状を発する。 art-180/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-2 When intending to make a demand pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the insurer issues a written demand to the person obliged to pay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の督促状により指定する期限は、督促状を発する日から起算して十日以上を経過した日でなければならない。ただし、第百七十二条各号のいずれかに該当する場合は、この限りでない。 art-180/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-3 The time limit specified in the written demand referred to in the preceding paragraph must be a day after the lapse of 10 days or more from the day on which the written demand is issued; provided, however, that this does not apply if any of the items in Article 172 is applicable. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 保険者等は、納付義務者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合においては、国税滞納処分の例によってこれを処分し、又は納付義務者の居住地若しくはその者の財産所在地の市町村（特別区を含むものとし、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）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。第六項において同じ。）に対して、その処分を請求することができる。 art-180/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-4 If a person obliged to pay falls under any of the following items, the insurer may effect a disposition as governed by the same rules as the disposition of national tax delinquency, or may request the municipality (including special wards, and a ward or administratively consolidated ward of a city designated under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947); the same applies in paragraph (6)) in which the person liable for payment is domiciled or in which the person's assets are located to effect the disposition against the person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第一項の規定による督促を受けた者がその指定の期限までに保険料等を納付しないとき。 art-180/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-4/item-1 the person who is demanded to pay insurance premiums, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) does not pay the insurance premiums, etc. demanded by the specified due date; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第百七十二条各号のいずれかに該当したことにより納期を繰り上げて保険料納入の告知を受けた者がその指定の期限までに保険料を納付しないとき。 art-180/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-4/item-2 the person who received a notice about payment of insurance premiums before the due date due to falling under any of the items of Article 172 fails to pay an insurance premium by the due date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 前項の規定により協会又は健康保険組合が国税滞納処分の例により処分を行う場合においては、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 art-180/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-5 When JHIA or a health insurance society effects a disposition governed by the same rules as the disposition of national tax delinquency pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, authorized for the disposition must be obtained from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 市町村は、第四項の規定による処分の請求を受けたときは、市町村税の例によってこれを処分することができる。この場合においては、保険者は、徴収金の百分の四に相当する額を当該市町村に交付しなければならない。 art-180/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-6 When receiving a demand to effect a disposition pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4), a municipality may do so as governed by the same rules as municipal tax. In this case, the insurer must deliver an amount equivalent to 0.04% of the money to be collected to the municipality. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-180/par-1: 第二百四条の二第一項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の二第一項 (Article 204-2, paragraph (1)), art-204-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-204-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-2/par-1 - art-180/par-1: 第二百四条の六第一項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の六第一項 (Article 204-6, paragraph (1)), art-204-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-204-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-6/par-1 - art-180/par-1: 第五十八条 → 健康保険法 第五十八条 (Article 58), art-58 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-58 - art-180/par-1: 第七十四条第二項 → 健康保険法 第七十四条第二項 (Article 74, paragraph (2)), art-74/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-74/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-74/par-2 - art-180/par-1: 第百九条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百九条第二項 (Article 109, paragraph (2)), art-109/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-109/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-109/par-2 - art-180/par-1: 第百四十九条 → 健康保険法 第百四十九条 (Article 149), art-149 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-149 - art-180/par-1: 第二十六条第四項 → 健康保険法 第二十六条第四項 (Article 26, paragraph (4)), art-26/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-4 - art-180/par-1: この条 → 健康保険法 第百八十条 (Article 180), art-180 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180 - art-180/par-1: 次条第一項 → 健康保険法 第百八十一条第一項 (Article 181, paragraph (1)), art-181/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-181/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-181/par-1 - art-180/par-1: 第百七十二条 → 健康保険法 第百七十二条 (Article 172), art-172 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-172 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-172 - art-180/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百八十条第一項 (Article 180, paragraph (1)), art-180/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-1 - art-180/par-3: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百八十条第二項 (Article 180, paragraph (2)), art-180/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-2 - art-180/par-3: 第百七十二条 → 健康保険法 第百七十二条 (Article 172), art-172 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-172 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-172 - art-180/par-4: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）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-180/par-4: 第六項 → 健康保険法 第百八十条第六項 (Article 180, paragraph (6)), art-180/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-6 - art-180/par-4/item-1: 第一項 → 健康保険法 第百八十条第一項 (Article 180, paragraph (1)), art-180/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-1 - art-180/par-4/item-2: 第百七十二条 → 健康保険法 第百七十二条 (Article 172), art-172 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-172 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-172 - art-180/par-5: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百八十条第四項 (Article 180, paragraph (4)), art-180/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-4 - art-180/par-6: 第四項 → 健康保険法 第百八十条第四項 (Article 180, paragraph (4)), art-180/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-4 ## Cited by 20 provisions cite this one. 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