# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第三十二条の十六 (Article 32-16)

- 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: 第三十二条の十六 (Article 32-16)（検査役の選任） — address `art-32-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-32-16
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32-16
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### 第三十二条の十六（検査役の選任） — (Appointment of Inspectors)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-32-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-32-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32-16</sup>

  **第一項**  裁判所は、組合の解散及び清算の監督に必要な調査をさせるため、検査役を選任することができる。
  <sup>art-32-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-32-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32-16/par-1</sup>
  The court may appoint an inspector(s) to conduct necessary investigations for the supervision of the dissolution and liquidation of a Society.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  前二条の規定は、前項の規定により裁判所が検査役を選任した場合について準用する。この場合において、前条中「清算人及び監事」とあるのは、「組合及び検査役」と読み替えるものとする。
  <sup>art-32-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-32-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32-16/par-2</sup>
  The provisions of the preceding two Articles shall apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the court has appointed an inspector(s) pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "such liquidator(s) and the auditors" in the preceding Article shall be deemed to be replaced with "the Society and its inspector(s)".
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-32-16/par-2: 前二条 → 国民健康保険法 第三十二条の十四 (Article 32-14), art-32-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-32-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32-14
- art-32-16/par-2: 前二条 → 国民健康保険法 第三十二条の十五 (Article 32-15), art-32-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-32-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32-15
- art-32-16/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第三十二条の十六第一項 (Article 32-16, paragraph (1)), art-32-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-32-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32-16/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 国民健康保険法 第三十二条の十六第二項（検査役の選任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-32-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32-16/par-2
- 国民健康保険法 第八十六条第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-86/par-1

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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-20261017T183826-002, 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
