# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第九十八条 (Article 98) - 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: 第九十八条 (Article 98)（管轄審査会） — address `art-98` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-98 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-98 - 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. --- ### 第九十八条（管轄審査会） — (Examination Board of Competent Jurisdiction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-98 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-98 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-98 **第一項** 審査請求は、当該処分をした市町村又は組合（第八十条第三項の規定による処分については、当該処分をした市町村とする。）の所在地の都道府県の審査会に対してしなければならない。 art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-98/par-1 An application for examination must be filed with the Examination Board of the prefecture governing the location of the Municipality or Society which took the relevant action (or, in the case of action taken pursuant to the provisions of Article 80, paragraph (3), the Municipality which took such action). machine translation, not official **第二項** 審査請求が管轄違であるときは、審査会は、すみやかに、事件を所轄の審査会に移送し、かつ、その旨を審査請求人に通知しなければならない。 art-98/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-98/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-98/par-2 When an Examination Board lacks jurisdiction over the matters for which an application for examination has been filed with said Examination Board, it must promptly transfer the case to the Examination Board of the competent jurisdiction and must also notify the person who filed the application for examination of such transfer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 事件が移送されたときは、はじめから、移送を受けた審査会に審査請求があつたものとみなす。 art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-98/par-3 When a case is transferred, the application for examination shall be deemed to have been filed originally with the Examination Board to which such case is transferred. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-98/par-1: 第八十条第三項 → 国民健康保険法 第八十条第三項 (Article 80, paragraph (3)), art-80/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-80/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-80/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-health-insurance-act-20261017T183826-009, 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