# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第九十五条 (Article 95) - 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: 第九十五条 (Article 95)（会長） — address `art-95` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-95 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-95 - 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. --- ### 第九十五条（会長） — (Chairperson) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-95 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-95 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-95 **第一項** 審査会に、公益を代表する委員のうちから委員が選挙する会長一人を置く。 art-95/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-95/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-95/par-1 The Examination Board shall have one chairperson to be elected by the committee members from among the committee members representing the public interest. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 会長に事故があるときは、前項の規定に準じて選挙された者が、その職務を代行する。 art-95/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-95/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-95/par-2 When the chairperson is unable to perform their duties, a person elected in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall perform the duties of the chairperson on their behalf. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-95/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第九十五条第一項 (Article 95, paragraph (1)), art-95/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-95/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-95/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第九十五条第二項（会長） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-95/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-95/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十条第一項（国民健康保険法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-130/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-130/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