# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第三条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3-2) - 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: 第三条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3-2)（地域型健康保険組合） — address `suppl-2111-70/art-3-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2 - 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. --- ### 第三条の二（地域型健康保険組合） — (Regional Health Insurance Societies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-2111-70/art-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2 **第一項** 第二十三条第三項の合併により設立された健康保険組合又は合併後存続する健康保険組合のうち次の要件のいずれにも該当する合併に係るもの（以下この条において「地域型健康保険組合」という。）は、当該合併が行われた日の属する年度及びこれに続く五箇年度に限り、第百六十条第十三項において準用する同条第一項に規定する範囲内において、不均一の一般保険料率を決定することができる。 suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1 A health insurance society established by a merger referred to in Article 23, paragraph (3) or a health insurance society that remains after a merger falling under all of the following requirements (hereinafter referred to as "regional health insurance society " in this Article) may determine unequal general insurance rates in the range prescribed in Article 160, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis to paragraph (13) of the same paragraph within the fiscal year in which the merger occurred and the subsequent five years: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 合併前の健康保険組合の設立事業所がいずれも同一都道府県の区域にあること。 suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1/item-1 all of the establishments of the health insurance society before the merger are located in the same prefecture; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 当該合併が第二十八条第一項に規定する指定健康保険組合、被保険者の数が第十一条第一項又は第二項の政令で定める数に満たなくなった健康保険組合その他事業運営基盤の安定が必要と認められる健康保険組合として厚生労働省令で定めるものを含むこと。 suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1/item-2 the merger includes a society specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a designated health insurance society prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1), a health insurance society whose number of insured persons has become less than the number prescribed by Cabinet Order referred to in Article 11, paragraph (1) or (2), or another health insurance society which is found to require a stable operational foundation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の一般保険料率の決定は、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-2 Authorization must be obtained from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for the determination of the insurance premium rate referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 地域型健康保険組合の一般保険料率の認可の手続その他地域型健康保険組合に関して必要な事項は、政令で定める。 suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-3 The authorization procedure for the general insurance premium rate of a regional health insurance society and other necessary matters concerning a regional health insurance society are specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1: 第二十三条第三項 → 健康保険法 第二十三条第三項 (Article 23, paragraph (3)), art-23/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-23/par-3 - suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1: この条 → 健康保険法 附則第三条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3-2), suppl-2111-70/art-3-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2 - suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1: 第百六十条第十三項 → 健康保険法 第百六十条第十三項 (Article 160, paragraph (13)), art-160/par-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-160/par-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160/par-13 - suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1: 同条第一項 → 健康保険法 第百六十条第一項 (Article 160, paragraph (1)), art-160/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-160/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160/par-1 - suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1/item-2: 第二十八条第一項 → 健康保険法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-28/par-1 - suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1/item-2: 第十一条第一項 → 健康保険法 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-11/par-1 - suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1/item-2: 第二項 → 健康保険法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-11/par-2 - suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 附則第三条の二第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3-2, paragraph (1)), suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第三条の二第一項（地域型健康保険組合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第三条の二第二項（地域型健康保険組合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-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 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10