# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第百二十七条 (Article 127) - 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: 第百二十七条 (Article 127) — address `art-127` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127 - 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. --- ### 第百二十七条 art-127 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127 **第一項** 市町村は、条例で、第九条第一項若しくは第五項の規定による届出をせず、又は虚偽の届出をした者に対し十万円以下の過料を科する規定を設けることができる。 art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127/par-1 A Municipality may, in its Municipal Ordinance, establish provisions to impose a non-criminal fine of not more than 100,000 yen on a person who fails to make a notification pursuant to, or makes a false notification under, the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) or (5). machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村は、条例で、世帯主又は世帯主であつた者が正当な理由なしに、第百十三条の規定により文書その他の物件の提出若しくは提示を命ぜられてこれに従わず、又は同条の規定による当該職員の質問に対して答弁せず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をしたときは、十万円以下の過料を科する規定を設けることができる。 art-127/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127/par-2 A Municipality may, in its Municipal Ordinance, establish provisions to impose a non-criminal fine of not more than 100,000 yen when a current or former Householder, without a justifiable reason, fails to comply with an order to submit or present a document or any other article issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 113 or fails to reply, or makes a false reply, to any question asked by the relevant personnel pursuant to the provisions of the same Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 市町村は、条例で、偽りその他不正の行為により保険料その他この法律の規定による徴収金の徴収を免かれた者に対し、その徴収を免かれた金額の五倍に相当する金額以下の過料を科する規定を設けることができる。 art-127/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127/par-3 A Municipality may, in its Municipal Ordinance, establish provisions to impose on a person who, by means of deception or other wrongful conduct, evades insurance premiums or any other money to be collected pursuant to the provisions of this Act, a non-criminal fine of not more than the amount equal to five times the amount evaded. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 地方自治法第二百五十五条の三の規定は、前三項の規定による過料の処分について準用する。 art-127/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127/par-4 The provisions of Article 255-3 of the Local Autonomy Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to any action of non-criminal fine imposed pursuant to the provisions of the three preceding paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-127/par-1: 第九条第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-9/par-1 - art-127/par-1: 第五項 → 国民健康保険法 第九条第五項 (Article 9, paragraph (5)), art-9/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-9/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-9/par-5 - art-127/par-2: 第百十三条 → 国民健康保険法 第百十三条 (Article 113), art-113 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-113 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-113 - art-127/par-4: 地方自治法第二百五十五条の三 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十五条の三 (Article 255-3), art-255-3 — not held in this collection - art-127/par-4: 前三項 → 国民健康保険法 第百二十七条第一項 (Article 127, paragraph (1)), art-127/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127/par-1 - art-127/par-4: 前三項 → 国民健康保険法 第百二十七条第二項 (Article 127, paragraph (2)), art-127/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127/par-2 - art-127/par-4: 前三項 → 国民健康保険法 第百二十七条第三項 (Article 127, paragraph (3)), art-127/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第百二十七条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-127/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-127/par-4 - 国民健康保険法 第百二十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-128/par-1 --- ## 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