# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百九十六条 (Article 196) - 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: 第百九十六条 (Article 196)（戸籍事項の無料証明） — address `art-196` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-196 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-196 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百九十六条（戸籍事項の無料証明） — (Free Certification of Family Registers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-196 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-196 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-196 **第一項** 市町村長（特別区の区長を含むものとし、地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市にあっては、区長又は総合区長とする。第二百三条において同じ。）は、保険者又は保険給付を受けるべき者に対して、当該市町村（特別区を含む。）の条例で定めるところにより、被保険者又は被保険者であった者の戸籍に関し、無料で証明を行うことができる。 art-196/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-196/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-196/par-1 The mayor of a municipality (including the mayor of a special ward, and in the case of a designated city referred to in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act, the mayor of a ward or mayor of a consolidated ward; the same applies in Article 203) may issue a certificate concerning the family register of a person who is or was an insured person to an insurer or a person to be granted insurance benefits, as specified by ordinance of the municipality (including a special ward). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、被扶養者に係る保険給付を行う場合においては、被扶養者又は被扶養者であった者の戸籍について準用する。 art-196/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-196/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-196/par-2 In the case of providing an insurance benefit pertaining to a dependent, the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the family register of the dependent or person who was the dependent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-196/par-1: 地方自治法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-196/par-1: 第二百三条 → 健康保険法 第二百三条 (Article 203), art-203 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-203 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-203 - art-196/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百九十六条第一項 (Article 196, paragraph (1)), art-196/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-196/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-196/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百九十六条第二項（戸籍事項の無料証明） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-196/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-196/par-2 --- ## 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