# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)

- 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) — address `suppl-4181-83/art-15`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15
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### 第十五条
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15</sup>

**第一項**  設立委員は、社会保険庁長官を通じ、その職員に対し、協会の職員の労働条件及び協会の職員の採用の基準を提示して、職員の募集を行うものとする。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-1</sup>
The committee members are to recruit employees by presenting the working conditions of JHIA's employees and the standards for hiring JHIA's employees to the employees of the Social Insurance Agency through the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  社会保険庁長官は、前項の規定によりその職員に対し、協会の職員の労働条件及び協会の職員の採用の基準が提示されたときは、協会の職員となることに関する社会保険庁の職員の意思を確認し、協会の職員となる意思を表示した者の中から、当該協会の職員の採用の基準に従い、協会の職員となるべき者を選定し、その名簿を作成して設立委員に提出するものとする。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2</sup>
When the working conditions of JHIA's employees and the standards for hiring JHIA's employees have been presented to the employees of the Social Insurance Agency pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency is to confirm the intentions of the employees of the Social Insurance Agency regarding becoming JHIA's employees, select, from among those who have expressed an intention to become JHIA's employees, the persons who are to become JHIA's employees in accordance with the standards for hiring JHIA's employees, prepare a roster of them, and submit it to the committee members.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第三項**  前項の名簿に記載された社会保険庁の職員のうち、設立委員から採用する旨の通知を受けた者であって第四条の規定の施行の際現に社会保険庁の職員であるものは、協会の成立の時において、協会の職員として採用される。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3</sup>
Among the employees of the Social Insurance Agency listed in the roster referred to in the preceding paragraph, a person who has received notice from the committee members to the effect that the person is to be hired and who is an employee of the Social Insurance Agency at the time of the enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 is hired as an employee of JHIA at the time of the establishment of JHIA.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第四項**  第一項の規定により提示する労働条件の内容となるべき事項、同項の規定による提示の方法、第二項の規定による職員の意思の確認の方法その他前三項の規定の実施に関し必要な事項は、厚生労働省令で定める。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-4</sup>
The matters that are to constitute the content of the working conditions to be presented pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the method of presentation pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the method of confirming the intentions of employees pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), and other matters necessary for the implementation of the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第五項**  協会の職員の採用について、設立委員がした行為及び設立委員に対してなされた行為は、それぞれ、協会がした行為及び協会に対してなされた行為とする。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-5</sup>
With regard to the hiring of JHIA's employees, acts done by the committee members and acts done toward the committee members are deemed to be acts done by JHIA and acts done toward JHIA, respectively.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 附則第十五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15, paragraph (1)), suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-1
- suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3: 前項 → 健康保険法 附則第十五条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15, paragraph (2)), suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2
- suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-4: 第一項 → 健康保険法 附則第十五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15, paragraph (1)), suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-1
- suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-4: 第二項 → 健康保険法 附則第十五条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15, paragraph (2)), suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2
- suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-4: 前三項 → 健康保険法 附則第十五条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15, paragraph (3)), suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3

## Cited by

7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 健康保険法 附則第十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-2
- 健康保険法 附則第十五条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3
- 健康保険法 附則第十五条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-4
- 健康保険法 附則第十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-16/par-1
- 健康保険法 附則第十六条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-16/par-3
- 健康保険法 附則第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1
- 健康保険法 附則第百三十三条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-133/par-1

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## 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-20261010T183826-025, 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
