# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第五条 (Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（全国健康保険協会管掌健康保険） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（全国健康保険協会管掌健康保険） — (Health Insurance Administered by Japan Health Insurance Association) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-5 **第一項** 全国健康保険協会は、健康保険組合の組合員でない被保険者（日雇特例被保険者を除く。次節、第五十一条の二、第六十三条第三項第二号、第百五十条第一項、第百七十二条第三号、第十章及び第十一章を除き、以下本則において同じ。）の保険を管掌する。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-5/par-1 Japan Health Insurance Association administers insurance for insured persons who are not members of a health insurance society (excluding specially-insured day laborers; the same applies hereinafter in the main provisions except for the following Section, Article 51-2, Article 63, paragraph (3), item (ii), Article 150, paragraph (1), Article 172, item (iii), and Chapters X and XI). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Japan Health Insurance Association administers insurance for insured persons who are not members of a health insurance society (excluding specially-insured day laborers; the same applies hereinafter in the main provisions except for the following Section, Article 51-2, Article 63, paragraph (3), item (ii), Article 150, paragraph (1), Article 172, paragraph (3), and Chapters X and XI)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb **第二項** 前項の規定により全国健康保険協会が管掌する健康保険の事業に関する業務のうち、被保険者の資格の取得及び喪失の確認、標準報酬月額及び標準賞与額の決定並びに保険料の徴収（任意継続被保険者に係るものを除く。）並びにこれらに附帯する業務は、厚生労働大臣が行う。 art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-5/par-2 Of the services relating to health insurance businesses provided by Japan Health Insurance Association pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the confirmation of acquisition and loss of eligibility to be insured, determination of standard monthly remuneration amount and standard bonus amount, collection of insurance premiums (excluding those from insured persons with optional and continued coverage), and operations incidental to these are conducted by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-5/par-1: 第五十一条の二 → 健康保険法 第五十一条の二 (Article 51-2), art-51-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-51-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-2 - art-5/par-1: 第六十三条第三項第二号 → 健康保険法 第六十三条第三項第二号 (Article 63, paragraph (3), item (ii)), art-63/par-3/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-63/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-63/par-3/item-2 - art-5/par-1: 第百五十条第一項 → 健康保険法 第百五十条第一項 (Article 150, paragraph (1)), art-150/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-150/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-150/par-1 - art-5/par-1: 第百七十二条第三号 → 健康保険法 第百七十二条第一項第三号 (Article 172, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-172/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-172/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-172/par-1/item-3 - art-5/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-5/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-1 - 健康保険法 第五条第二項（全国健康保険協会管掌健康保険） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-5/par-2 - 健康保険法 第七条第一項（二以上の事業所に使用される者の保険者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7/par-1 - 健康保険法 第七条の二第二項第三号（設立及び業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-7-2/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-2/par-2/item-3 - 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 附則第二十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-21/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 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/appdx-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act (健康保険法), Article 5, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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