# 健康保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27)

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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: 第二十七条 (Article 27)（債務を完済するための費用負担の求め） — address `art-27`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第二十七条（債務を完済するための費用負担の求め） — Request for Bearing of Expenses to Fully Repay Debts
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-27</sup>

  **第一項**  法第二十六条第三項の規定により設立事業所の事業主に負担することを求めることができる費用の額は、債務を完済するために要する費用の全部に相当する額とする。ただし、破産手続開始の決定その他特別の理由により、当該事業主が当該費用を負担することができないときは、健康保険組合は、厚生労働大臣の承認を得て、これを減額し、又は免除することができる。
  <sup>art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-27/par-1</sup>
  The amount of expenses that may be requested to be borne by the employer of the establishment pursuant to Article 26, paragraph (3) of the Act is to be an amount equivalent to the whole of the expenses required to fully repay the debts; provided, however, that where that employer is unable to bear those expenses due to a decision to commence bankruptcy proceedings or other special reasons, the health insurance society may, with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, reduce or waive them.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-27/par-1: 法第二十六条第三項 → 健康保険法 第二十六条第三項 (Article 26, paragraph (3)), art-26/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-3 (e-Gov law ID 211AC0000000070)

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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-20261106T164949-004, 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