# 健康保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act — 第二十二条 (Article 22)

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- Law: 健康保険法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act), 大正十五年勅令第二百四十三号
- English title "Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act": claude-opus-5-5
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- Provision: 第二十二条 (Article 22)（組合債） — address `art-22`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第二十二条（組合債） — Society Bonds
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<sup>art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-22</sup>

  **第一項**  健康保険組合は、組合債を起こし、又は起債の方法、利率若しくは償還の方法を変更しようとするときは、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。ただし、厚生労働省令で定める軽微な変更をしようとするときは、この限りでない。
  <sup>art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-22/par-1</sup>
  When a health insurance society intends to issue society bonds, or to change the method of issuing bonds, the interest rate or the method of redemption, it must obtain the authorization of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that this does not apply when it intends to make a minor change specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  健康保険組合は、前項ただし書の厚生労働省令で定める軽微な変更をしたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を厚生労働大臣に届け出なければならない。
  <sup>art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-22/par-2</sup>
  When a health insurance society has made a minor change specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, it must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect without delay.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-22/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法施行令 第二十二条第一項 (Article 22, paragraph (1)), art-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-22/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 健康保険法施行令 第二十二条第二項（組合債） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-22/par-2
- 健康保険法施行令 第六十条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-60/par-1

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-06
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/215IO0000000243/20261001_508CO0000000276), retrieved 2026-11-06
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-003, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-004, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 229 — 健康保険法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06
