# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百九十八条 (Article 198) - 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: 第百九十八条 (Article 198)（立入検査等） — address `art-198` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-198 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-198 - 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. --- ### 第百九十八条（立入検査等） — (On-site Inspections) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-198 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-198 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-198 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、被保険者の資格、標準報酬、保険料又は保険給付に関して必要があると認めるときは、事業主に対し、文書その他の物件の提出若しくは提示を命じ、又は当該職員をして事業所に立ち入って関係者に質問し、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-198/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-198/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-198/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary in relation to an insured person's eligibility, standard remuneration, insurance premiums, or insurance benefits, the Minister may order the employer to submit or present documents or other objects, or have the ministry's official enter the business site to ask the persons concerned questions or to inspect record books, documents, and other objects. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **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準用する。 art-198/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-198/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-198/par-2 The provisions of Article 7-38, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions or inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-198/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-198/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百九十八条第一項 (Article 198, paragraph (1)), art-198/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-198/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-198/par-1 - art-198/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 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百九十八条第二項（立入検査等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-198/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-198/par-2 - 健康保険法 第二百四条第一項第十九号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204/par-1/item-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204/par-1/item-19 - 健康保険法 第二百四条の五第二項（機構が行う立入検査等に係る認可等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-5/par-2 - 健康保険法 第二百四条の七第一項（協会への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-7/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百四条の八第二項（協会が行う立入検査等に係る認可等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-8/par-2 - 健康保険法 第二百八条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-208/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-208/par-1/item-5 - 健康保険法 第二百九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-209/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-209/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