# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第九十九条 (Article 99) - 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: 第九十九条 (Article 99)（審査請求の期間及び方式） — address `art-99` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-99 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-99 - 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. --- ### 第九十九条（審査請求の期間及び方式） — (Term and Means of Application for Examination) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-99 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-99 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-99 **第一項** 審査請求は、処分があつたことを知つた日の翌日から起算して三月以内に、文書又は口頭でしなければならない。ただし、正当な理由により、この期間内に審査請求をすることができなかつたことを疎明したときは、この限りでない。 art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-99/par-1 An application for examination must be filed in writing or orally within a period of three months from the day following the date that the relevant action was taken, to the applicant's knowledge; provided, however, that this shall not apply if the applicant makes a prima facie showing that an application could not have been filed within such period for a justifiable reason. machine translation, not official ## 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