# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 26)

- 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: 第二十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 26) — address `suppl-4181-83/art-26`
- 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-26
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-26
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### 第二十六条
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-26</sup>

**第一項**  協会の成立の際現に係属している平成二十年十月改正健保法第七条の二第二項及び第三項に規定する協会の業務に関する訴訟事件又は非訟事件であって協会が受け継ぐものについては、政令で定めるところにより、協会を国の利害に関係のある訴訟についての法務大臣の権限等に関する法律（昭和二十二年法律第百九十四号）に規定する国又は行政庁とみなし、同法を適用する。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-26/par-1</sup>
With regard to litigation cases or non-contentious cases concerning the business of JHIA prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Health Insurance Act as Amended in October 2008 that are pending at the time of JHIA's establishment and that JHIA takes over, JHIA is deemed, as provided by Cabinet Order, to be the state or the administrative agency prescribed in the Act on the Authority of the Minister of Justice over Suits Relating to the Interests of the State (Act No. 194 of 1947), and that Act applies.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4181-83/art-26/par-1: 平成二十年十月改正健保法第七条の二第二項 → 健康保険法 第七条の二第二項 (Article 7-2, paragraph (2)), art-7-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-7-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-2/par-2
- suppl-4181-83/art-26/par-1: 第三項 → 健康保険法 第七条の二第三項 (Article 7-2, paragraph (3)), art-7-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-7-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-2/par-3

## Cited by

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

- 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第五号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-5
- 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-20261010T183826-026, 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
