# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百八十五条 (Article 185) - 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: 第百八十五条 (Article 185)（設立の認可等） — address `art-185` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-185 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-185 - 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. --- ### 第百八十五条（設立の認可等） — (Authorization of Establishment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-185 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-185 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-185 **第一項** 連合会を設立しようとするときは、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-185/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-185/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-185/par-1 When health insurance societies intend to establish a federation, they must prepare its constitution and obtain authorization therefor from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 連合会は、設立の認可を受けた時に成立する。 art-185/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-185/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-185/par-2 A federation is incorporated at the time of authorization of its establishment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、健康保険組合に対し、組合員である被保険者の共同の福祉を増進するため必要があると認めるときは、連合会に加入することを命ずることができる。 art-185/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-185/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-185/par-3 When finding it necessary for promoting the common welfare of insured persons who are members of a health insurance society, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may order the health insurance society to join a federation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第二条第六項（健康保険組合の財政調整） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-2/par-6 --- ## 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