# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第百十九条 (Article 119) - 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: 第百十九条 (Article 119)（厚生労働大臣と都道府県知事との連携） — address `art-119` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-119 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-119 - 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. --- ### 第百十九条（厚生労働大臣と都道府県知事との連携） — (Coordination between the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and Prefectural Governors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-119 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-119 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-119 **第一項** 第四十一条第一項（第五十二条第六項、第五十二条の二第三項、第五十三条第三項及び第五十四条の三第六項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第二項（第四十五条の二第四項、第五十二条第六項、第五十二条の二第三項、第五十三条第三項及び第五十四条の三第六項において準用する場合を含む。）、第四十五条の二第一項（第五十二条第六項、第五十二条の二第三項、第五十三条第三項及び第五十四条の三第六項において準用する場合を含む。）、第五十四条の二の二（第五十四条の三第六項において準用する場合を含む。）、第五十四条の二の三第一項（第五十四条の三第六項において準用する場合を含む。）並びに第百十四条の規定により、厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事がこれらの規定に規定する事務を行うときは、相互に密接な連携の下に行うものとする。 art-119/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-119/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-119/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or a prefectural governor conducts any of the affairs specified in Article 41, paragraph (1) (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 52, paragraph (6), Article 52-2, paragraph (3), Article 53, paragraph (3) and Article 54-3, paragraph (6)) and paragraph (2) (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 45-2, paragraph (4), Article 52, paragraph (6), Article 52-2, paragraph (3), Article 53, paragraph (3) and Article 54-3, paragraph (6)), Article 45-2, paragraph (1) (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 52, paragraph (6), Article 52-2, paragraph (3), Article 53, paragraph (3) and Article 54-3, paragraph (6)), Article 54-2-2 (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-3, paragraph (6)), Article 54-2-3, paragraph (1) (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-3, paragraph (6)) and Article 114 pursuant to these provisions, the relevant affairs shall be conducted under mutually close coordination. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-119/par-1: 第四十一条第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-41/par-1 - art-119/par-1: 第五十二条第六項 → 国民健康保険法 第五十二条第六項 (Article 52, paragraph (6)), art-52/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-52/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-52/par-6 - art-119/par-1: 第五十二条の二第三項 → 国民健康保険法 第五十二条の二第三項 (Article 52-2, paragraph (3)), art-52-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-52-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-52-2/par-3 - art-119/par-1: 第五十三条第三項 → 国民健康保険法 第五十三条第三項 (Article 53, paragraph (3)), art-53/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-53/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-53/par-3 - art-119/par-1: 第五十四条の三第六項 → 国民健康保険法 第五十四条の三第六項 (Article 54-3, paragraph (6)), art-54-3/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-54-3/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-54-3/par-6 - art-119/par-1: 第二項 → 国民健康保険法 第四十一条第二項 (Article 41, paragraph (2)), art-41/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-41/par-2 - art-119/par-1: 第四十五条の二第四項 → 国民健康保険法 第四十五条の二第四項 (Article 45-2, paragraph (4)), art-45-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-45-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-45-2/par-4 - art-119/par-1: 第四十五条の二第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第四十五条の二第一項 (Article 45-2, paragraph (1)), art-45-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-45-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-45-2/par-1 - art-119/par-1: 第五十四条の二の二 → 国民健康保険法 第五十四条の二の二 (Article 54-2-2), art-54-2-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-54-2-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-54-2-2 - art-119/par-1: 第五十四条の二の三第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第五十四条の二の三第一項 (Article 54-2-3, paragraph (1)), art-54-2-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-54-2-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-54-2-3/par-1 - art-119/par-1: 第百十四条 → 国民健康保険法 第百十四条 (Article 114), art-114 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-114 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-114 --- ## 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-20261017T183826-011, 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