# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二百三条 (Article 203) - 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: 第二百三条 (Article 203)（市町村が処理する事務等） — address `art-203` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-203 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-203 - 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. --- ### 第二百三条（市町村が処理する事務等） — (Affairs Handled by Municipalities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-203 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-203 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-203 **第一項** 日雇特例被保険者の保険の保険者の事務のうち厚生労働大臣が行うものの一部は、政令で定めるところにより、市町村長が行うこととすることができる。 art-203/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-203/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-203/par-1 Some of the affairs concerning insurers covering specially-insured day laborers that are administered by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may be administered by the mayor of a municipality as specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 協会は、市町村（特別区を含む。）に対し、政令で定めるところにより、日雇特例被保険者の保険の保険者の事務のうち協会が行うものの一部を委託することができる。 art-203/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-203/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-203/par-2 JHIA may delegate some of the affairs concerning insurers of specially-insured day laborers that are administered by JHIA to municipalities (including special wards), as specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百九十六条第一項（戸籍事項の無料証明） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-196/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-196/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百四条第一項（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 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百五条の二第一項（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-205-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205-2/par-1 --- ## 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