# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百八十九条 (Article 189) - 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: 第百八十九条 (Article 189)（審査請求及び再審査請求） — address `art-189` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-189 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-189 - 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. --- ### 第百八十九条（審査請求及び再審査請求） — (Applications for Examination or Reexamination) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-189 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-189 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-189 **第一項** 被保険者の資格、標準報酬又は保険給付に関する処分に不服がある者は、社会保険審査官に対して審査請求をし、その決定に不服がある者は、社会保険審査会に対して再審査請求をすることができる。 art-189/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-189/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-189/par-1 A person who has an objection to a disposition relating to eligibility as an insured person, standard remuneration, or insurance benefits may request a social insurance examiner to conduct an examination, and if the person has any objection to the examiner's determination, the person may request the Social Insurance Examination Committee to conduct a re-examination. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 審査請求をした日から二月以内に決定がないときは、審査請求人は、社会保険審査官が審査請求を棄却したものとみなすことができる。 art-189/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-189/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-189/par-2 If a determination has not been made within two months from the date on which a request for examination was made, the applicant may deem that the social insurance examiner has dismissed the request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の審査請求及び再審査請求は、時効の完成猶予及び更新に関しては、裁判上の請求とみなす。 art-189/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-189/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-189/par-3 The request for examination and the request for re-examination referred to in paragraph (1) are deemed to be a judicial claim with regard to the postponement of the completion of prescription and the renewal of prescription. machine translation, not official **第四項** 被保険者の資格又は標準報酬に関する処分が確定したときは、その処分についての不服を当該処分に基づく保険給付に関する処分についての不服の理由とすることができない。 art-189/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-189/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-189/par-4 When a disposition for eligibility or standard remuneration of an insured person becomes final and binding, an objection to the disposition may not be permitted as a reason for an objection to a disposition for the payment of insurance benefits based on the final and binding disposition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-189/par-3: 第一項 → 健康保険法 第百八十九条第一項 (Article 189, paragraph (1)), art-189/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-189/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-189/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百八十九条第三項（審査請求及び再審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-189/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-189/par-3 - 健康保険法 第百九十一条第一項（行政不服審査法の適用関係） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-191/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-191/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百九十二条第一項（審査請求と訴訟との関係） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-192/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-192/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-005, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10