# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第百十三条 (Article 113)

- Law: 国民健康保険法 (National Health Insurance Act), 昭和三十三年法律第百九十二号
- English title "National 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: 第百十三条 (Article 113)（文書の提出等） — address `art-113`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-113
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-113
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### 第百十三条（文書の提出等） — (Submission, etc. of Documents)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-113 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-113 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-113</sup>

**第一項**  市町村及び組合は、被保険者の資格、保険給付及び保険料に関して必要があると認めるときは、被保険者の属する世帯の世帯主若しくは組合員又はこれらであつた者に対し、文書その他の物件の提出若しくは提示を命じ、又は当該職員に質問させることができる。
<sup>art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-113/par-1</sup>
When a Municipality or Society finds it necessary in relation to an insured person's eligibility, insurance benefit or insurance premiums, it may order the current or former Householder or Society member of the household to which the insured person belongs to submit or present a document or any other article or may have its personnel question such Householder or Society member.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 国民健康保険法 第百十五条第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-115/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-115/par-1
- 国民健康保険法 第百二十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127/par-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/333AC0000000192/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-17
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — National Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-health-insurance-act-20261017T183826-010, translated 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17
