# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百九十七条 (Article 197) - 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: 第百九十七条 (Article 197)（報告等） — address `art-197` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-197 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-197 - 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. --- ### 第百九十七条（報告等） — (Reports) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-197 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-197 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-197 **第一項** 保険者（厚生労働大臣が行う第五条第二項及び第百二十三条第二項に規定する業務に関しては、厚生労働大臣。次項において同じ。）は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、被保険者を使用する事業主に、第四十八条に規定する事項以外の事項に関し報告をさせ、又は文書を提示させ、その他この法律の施行に必要な事務を行わせることができる。 art-197/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-197/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-197/par-1 An insurer (the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare with respect to affairs administered by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare as prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (2) and Article 123, paragraph (2); the same applies in the following paragraph) may have the employer of an insured person report on matters other than those prescribed in Article 48, present a document, or administer other affairs necessary for enforcing this Act as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険者は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、被保険者（日雇特例被保険者であった者を含む。）又は保険給付を受けるべき者に、保険者又は事業主に対して、この法律の施行に必要な申出若しくは届出をさせ、又は文書を提出させることができる。 art-197/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-197/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-197/par-2 An insurer may have an insured person (including former specially-insured day laborers) or a person who is to receive insurance benefits make a request or a notification, or submit documents necessary for the enforcement of this Act to the insurer or employer, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-197/par-1: 第五条第二項 → 健康保険法 第五条第二項 (Article 5, paragraph (2)), art-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-5/par-2 - art-197/par-1: 第百二十三条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百二十三条第二項 (Article 123, paragraph (2)), art-123/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-123/par-2 - art-197/par-1: 次項 → 健康保険法 第百九十七条第二項 (Article 197, paragraph (2)), art-197/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-197/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-197/par-2 - art-197/par-1: 第四十八条 → 健康保険法 第四十八条 (Article 48), art-48 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-48 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百九十七条第一項（報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-197/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-197/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百四条第一項第十八号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-204/par-1/item-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204/par-1/item-18 - 健康保険法 第二百十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-216/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-216/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-217/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-217/par-1 - 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第九条第四項（利用範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/art-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-9/par-4 --- ## 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