# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百九十四条の三 (Article 194-3) - 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: 第百九十四条の三 (Article 194-3)（報告及び検査） — address `art-194-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-194-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194-3 - 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. --- ### 第百九十四条の三（報告及び検査） — Reports and Inspections caption: machine translation, not official art-194-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-194-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194-3 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、前条第五項及び第六項の規定による措置に関し必要があると認めるときは、その必要と認められる範囲内において、同条第三項若しくは第四項の規定に違反していると認めるに足りる相当の理由がある者に対し、必要な事項に関し報告を求め、又は当該職員に当該者の事務所若しくは事業所に立ち入って質問させ、若しくは帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-194-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-194-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194-3/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary with regard to the measures pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (5) and (6) of the preceding Article, the Minister may, within the scope found necessary, request a report on necessary matters from a person for whom there are reasonable grounds to find that the person is in violation of the provisions of paragraph (3) or (4) of that Article, or have an official enter the offices or places of business of that person to question the person or inspect record books, documents and other objects. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第七条の三十八第二項の規定は前項の規定による質問又は検査について、同条第三項の規定は前項の規定による権限について、それぞれ準用する。 art-194-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-194-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 7-38, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions or inspections under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-194-3/par-1: 前条第五項 → 健康保険法 第百九十四条の二第五項 (Article 194-2, paragraph (5)), art-194-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-194-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194-2/par-5 - art-194-3/par-1: 第六項 → 健康保険法 第百九十四条の二第六項 (Article 194-2, paragraph (6)), art-194-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-194-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194-2/par-6 - art-194-3/par-1: 同条第三項 → 健康保険法 第百九十四条の二第三項 (Article 194-2, paragraph (3)), art-194-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-194-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194-2/par-3 - art-194-3/par-1: 第四項 → 健康保険法 第百九十四条の二第四項 (Article 194-2, paragraph (4)), art-194-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-194-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194-2/par-4 - art-194-3/par-2: 第七条の三十八第二項 → 健康保険法 第七条の三十八第二項 (Article 7-38, paragraph (2)), art-7-38/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-7-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-38/par-2 - art-194-3/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百九十四条の三第一項 (Article 194-3, paragraph (1)), art-194-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-194-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194-3/par-1 - art-194-3/par-2: 同条第三項 → 健康保険法 第七条の三十八第三項 (Article 7-38, paragraph (3)), art-7-38/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-7-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-38/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百九十四条の三第二項（報告及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-194-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194-3/par-2 - 健康保険法 第二百十三条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-213-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-213-3/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-006, 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