# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第三十四条 (Article 34) - 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: 第三十四条 (Article 34) — address `art-34` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-34 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-34 - 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. --- ### 第三十四条 art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-34 **第一項** 二以上の適用事業所の事業主が同一である場合には、当該事業主は、厚生労働大臣の承認を受けて、当該二以上の事業所を一の適用事業所とすることができる。 art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-34/par-1 When the employer of two or more applicable places of business is the same, the employer may merge the two or more places of business into one applicable place of business with approval from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の承認があったときは、当該二以上の適用事業所は、適用事業所でなくなったものとみなす。 art-34/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-34/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-34/par-2 When the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph is obtained, the relevant two or more places for business are no longer deemed to be applicable places for business. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-34/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第三十四条第一項 (Article 34, paragraph (1)), art-34/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-34/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第七条の二十一第二項（評議会） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-7-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-21/par-2 - 健康保険法 第三十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-34/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-34/par-2 - 健康保険法 第二百四条第一項第三号（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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