# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十八条 (Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（組合会） — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（組合会） — (Society Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-18 **第一項** 健康保険組合に、組合会を置く。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-18/par-1 A health insurance society has society meetings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 組合会は、組合会議員をもって組織する。 art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-18/par-2 A society meeting is comprised of society meeting members. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 組合会議員の定数は、偶数とし、その半数は、設立事業所の事業主において設立事業所の事業主（その代理人を含む。）及び設立事業所に使用される者のうちから選定し、他の半数は、被保険者である組合員において互選する。 art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-18/par-3 The fixed number of society meeting members is an even number; half of the members are selected from among employers of establishments (including their agents) and workers employed at establishments, and the other half are elected by vote from among society members who are insured persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百八十八条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-188/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-188/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第二条第三項（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3511-62/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3511-62/art-2/par-3 - 健康保険法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1 --- ## 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