# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二百八条 (Article 208) - 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: 第二百八条 (Article 208) — address `art-208` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-208 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-208 - 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. --- ### 第二百八条 art-208 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-208 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-208 **第一項** 事業主が、正当な理由がなくて次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、六月以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-208/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-208/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-208/par-1 If an employer falls under any of the following items without justifiable grounds, the employer is subject to imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen: machine translation, not official **一** 第四十八条（第百六十八条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定に違反して、届出をせず、又は虚偽の届出をしたとき。 art-208/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-208/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-208/par-1/item-1 the employer fails to submit a notification, in violation of the provisions of Article 48 (including when applied mutatis mutandis to Article 168, paragraph (2)), or submits a false notification; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第四十九条第二項（第五十条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定に違反して、通知をしないとき。 art-208/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-208/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-208/par-1/item-2 the employer fails to give notice, in violation of the provisions of Article 49, paragraph (2) (including when applied mutatis mutandis in Article 50, paragraph (2)), or submits a false notice; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 第百六十一条第二項又は第百六十九条第七項の規定に違反して、督促状に指定する期限までに保険料を納付しないとき。 art-208/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-208/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-208/par-1/item-3 the employer does not pay an insurance premium by the due date prescribed by a demand notice in violation of the provisions of Article 161, paragraph (2) or Article 169, paragraph (7); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 第百六十九条第二項の規定に違反して、保険料を納付せず、又は第百七十一条第一項の規定に違反して、帳簿を備え付けず、若しくは同項若しくは同条第二項の規定に違反して、報告せず、若しくは虚偽の報告をしたとき。 art-208/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-208/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-208/par-1/item-4 the employer fails to pay an insurance premium in violation of the provisions of Article 169, paragraph (2), fails to keep record books in violation of the provisions of Article 171, paragraph (1), or fails to make a report or makes a false report in violation of the provisions of the same paragraph or paragraph (2) of the same Article; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 第百九十八条第一項の規定による文書その他の物件の提出若しくは提示をせず、又は同項の規定による当該職員（第二百四条の五第二項において読み替えて適用される第百九十八条第一項に規定する機構の職員及び第二百四条の八第二項において読み替えて適用される第百九十八条第一項に規定する協会の職員を含む。次条において同じ。）の質問に対して、答弁せず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をし、若しくは第百九十八条第一項の規定による検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避したとき。 art-208/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-208/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-208/par-1/item-5 the employer fails to submit or present reports or materials pursuant to Article 198, paragraph (1) (including officials of JPS prescribed in Article 198, paragraph (1) applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 204-5, paragraph (2), and the staff of JHIA prescribed in Article 198, paragraph (1) by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 204-8, paragraph (2); the same applies in the following Article), fails to answer a question asked by the relevant official pursuant to the same paragraph, or answers the question untruthfully thereto, or refuses, obstructs, or evades an inspection conducted pursuant to the same paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-208/par-1/item-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 - art-208/par-1/item-1: 第百六十八条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百六十八条第二項 (Article 168, paragraph (2)), art-168/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-168/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-168/par-2 - art-208/par-1/item-2: 第四十九条第二項 → 健康保険法 第四十九条第二項 (Article 49, paragraph (2)), art-49/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-49/par-2 - art-208/par-1/item-2: 第五十条第二項 → 健康保険法 第五十条第二項 (Article 50, paragraph (2)), art-50/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-50/par-2 - art-208/par-1/item-3: 第百六十一条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百六十一条第二項 (Article 161, paragraph (2)), art-161/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-161/par-2 - art-208/par-1/item-3: 第百六十九条第七項 → 健康保険法 第百六十九条第七項 (Article 169, paragraph (7)), art-169/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-169/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-169/par-7 - art-208/par-1/item-4: 第百六十九条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百六十九条第二項 (Article 169, paragraph (2)), art-169/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-169/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-169/par-2 - art-208/par-1/item-4: 第百七十一条第一項 → 健康保険法 第百七十一条第一項 (Article 171, paragraph (1)), art-171/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-171/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-171/par-1 - art-208/par-1/item-4: 同条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百七十一条第二項 (Article 171, paragraph (2)), art-171/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-171/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-171/par-2 - art-208/par-1/item-5: 第百九十八条第一項 → 健康保険法 第百九十八条第一項 (Article 198, paragraph (1)), art-198/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-198/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-198/par-1 - art-208/par-1/item-5: 第二百四条の五第二項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の五第二項 (Article 204-5, paragraph (2)), art-204-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-204-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-5/par-2 - art-208/par-1/item-5: 第二百四条の八第二項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の八第二項 (Article 204-8, paragraph (2)), art-204-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-204-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-8/par-2 - art-208/par-1/item-5: 次条 → 健康保険法 第二百九条 (Article 209), art-209 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-209 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-209 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第二百十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-214/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-214/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の二十六第一項第四号（登録の拒否） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-19-26/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-26/par-1/item-4 - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第六条第一項第二号（許可の欠格事由） — https://japanlaw.org/en/worker-dispatch-act/art-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-6/par-1/item-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-006, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10