# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百七十条 (Article 170) - 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: 第百七十条 (Article 170)（日雇特例被保険者の標準賃金日額に係る保険料額の告知等） — address `art-170` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-170 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-170 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百七十条（日雇特例被保険者の標準賃金日額に係る保険料額の告知等） — (Notification of the Amount of Insurance Premiums Pertaining to Standard Daily Wages of Specially-Insured Day Laborers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-170 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-170 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-170 **第一項** 事業主が前条第二項の規定による保険料の納付を怠ったときは、厚生労働大臣は、その調査に基づき、その納付すべき保険料額を決定し、これを事業主に告知する。 art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-170/par-1 If an employer fails to pay insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare determines the amount of insurance premiums to be paid by the employer based on the Minister's investigation and notifies the employer of the amount. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 事業主が、正当な理由がないと認められるにもかかわらず、前条第二項の規定による保険料の納付を怠ったときは、厚生労働大臣は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、前項の規定により決定された保険料額の百分の二十五に相当する額の追徴金を徴収する。ただし、決定された保険料額が千円未満であるときは、この限りでない。 art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-170/par-2 If an employer fails to pay insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article despite no justifiable grounds being found, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare collects penalty fees, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in an amount equal to one-quarter of the amount of the insurance premiums determined pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph; however, this does not apply is the settled amount of insurance premium is less than 1,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If an employer fails to pay insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding paragraph despite no justifiable grounds being found, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare collects penalty fees, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in an amount equal to one-quarter of the amount of the insurance premiums determined pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph; however, this does not apply is the settled amount of insurance premium is less than 1,000 yen." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb **第三項** 追徴金を計算するに当たり、決定された保険料額に千円未満の端数があるときは、その端数は、切り捨てる。 art-170/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-170/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-170/par-3 In calculations of the penalty fees, the amount of determined insurance premium is to be rounded down to the nearest 1,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第二項に規定する追徴金は、その決定された日から十四日以内に、厚生労働大臣に納付しなければならない。 art-170/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-170/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-170/par-4 The penalty fees prescribed in paragraph (2) must be paid to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare within 14 days from the day on which they were determined. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-170/par-1: 前条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百六十九条第二項 (Article 169, paragraph (2)), art-169/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-169/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-169/par-2 - art-170/par-2: 前条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百六十九条第二項 (Article 169, paragraph (2)), art-169/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-169/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-169/par-2 - art-170/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百七十条第一項 (Article 170, paragraph (1)), art-170/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-170/par-1 - art-170/par-4: 第二項 → 健康保険法 第百七十条第二項 (Article 170, paragraph (2)), art-170/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-170/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百六十九条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-169/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百七十条第二項（日雇特例被保険者の標準賃金日額に係る保険料額の告知等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-170/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百七十条第四項（日雇特例被保険者の標準賃金日額に係る保険料額の告知等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-170/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-170/par-4 - 健康保険法 第百七十一条第一項（健康保険印紙の受払等の報告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-171/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-171/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百五条の二第一項第七号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205-2/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205-2/par-1/item-7 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act (健康保険法), Article 170, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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