# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第三十三条 (Article 33) - 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33)（合併） — address `art-33` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-33 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-33 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十三条（合併） — (Mergers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-33 **第一項** 組合は、合併しようとする場合においては、組合会においてその旨を議決しなければならない。 art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-33/par-1 Any merger of a Society must be subject to a resolution to such effect at a Society meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 組合が合併した場合においては、合併により新たに設立された組合又は合併後存続する組合は、合併により消滅した組合の権利義務（その組合が、国民健康保険事業に関し、行政庁の許可、認可その他の処分に基いて有する権利義務を含む。）を承継する。 art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-33/par-2 In cases where Societies have merged together, the Society newly incorporated through the merger or the Society surviving the merger shall succeed to the rights and obligations of the Society or Societies extinguished through said merger (including the rights and obligations which said Society or Societies have in relation to their respective national health insurance services based on the permission, license, approval or any other disposition by an administrative agency). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17