# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百六十六条 (Article 166) - 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: 第百六十六条 (Article 166)（口座振替による納付） — address `art-166` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-166 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-166 - 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. --- ### 第百六十六条（口座振替による納付） — (Payment by Account Transfer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-166 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-166 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-166 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、納付義務者から、預金又は貯金の払出しとその払い出した金銭による保険料の納付をその預金口座又は貯金口座のある金融機関に委託して行うことを希望する旨の申出があった場合においては、その納付が確実と認められ、かつ、その申出を承認することが保険料の徴収上有利と認められるときに限り、その申出を承認することができる。 art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-166/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare receives a request, from a person obliged to pay, for deposits or savings be deposited and for the payment of insurance premiums with the money paid out to be delegated to a financial institution with which the related deposit or savings account is held, the Minister may approve the request only when the payment is ensured and the approval is found to be advantageous for the collection of insurance premiums. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百六十九条第八項（日雇特例被保険者に係る保険料の負担及び納付義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-169/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-169/par-8 - 健康保険法 第二百四条第一項第十三号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204/par-1/item-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204/par-1/item-13 --- ## 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