# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第七条の二十 (Article 7-20) - 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: 第七条の二十 (Article 7-20)（委員の地位） — address `art-7-20` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-7-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-20 - 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. --- ### 第七条の二十（委員の地位） — (Position of Members) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-7-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-20 **第一項** 運営委員会の委員は、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）その他の罰則の適用については、法令により公務に従事する職員とみなす。 art-7-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-7-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-20/par-1 A member of the management board is deemed to be an official engaged in public service under acts and regulations, with respect to the application of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) and other penal provisions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第七条の二十四第一項（役員及び職員の公務員たる性質） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-7-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-24/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