# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号 - English title "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: 第十二条 (Article 12) — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条 art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-12 **第一項** 適用事業所の事業主は、健康保険組合を設立しようとするときは、健康保険組合を設立しようとする適用事業所に使用される被保険者の二分の一以上の同意を得て、規約を作り、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-12/par-1 When intending to establish a health insurance society, the employer of an applicable place of business must prepare a constitution with the consent of half or more of the insured persons employed at the applicable place of business for which the health insurance society is to be established, and obtain authorization from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 二以上の適用事業所について健康保険組合を設立しようとする場合においては、前項の同意は、各適用事業所について得なければならない。 art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-12/par-2 When intending to establish a health insurance society for two or more applicable places of business, the consent in the preceding paragraph must be obtained for each of those places of business. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-12/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-12/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-12/par-2 - 健康保険法 第十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-13/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二十五条第四項（設立事業所の増減） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-25/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-25/par-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10