# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二百四条の七 (Article 204-7) - 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: 第二百四条の七 (Article 204-7)（協会への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — address `art-204-7` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-7 - 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. --- ### 第二百四条の七（協会への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — (Delegation of Affairs Pertaining to Authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to JHIA) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-204-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-7 **第一項** 第百九十八条第一項の規定による厚生労働大臣の命令並びに質問及び検査の権限（健康保険組合に係る場合を除き、保険給付に関するものに限る。）に係る事務は、協会に行わせるものとする。ただし、当該権限は、厚生労働大臣が自ら行うことを妨げない。 art-204-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-7/par-1 Affairs concerning the authorities of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for ordering, questioning, and inspection pursuant to the provisions of Article 198, paragraph (1) (excluding those concerning health insurance societies and limited to those concerning insurance benefits) are administered by JHIA; provided, however, that this does not preclude the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from personally exercising the authorities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に定めるもののほか、協会による同項に規定する権限に係る事務の実施に関し必要な事項は、厚生労働省令で定める。 art-204-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-7/par-2 Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, necessary matters concerning JHIA administering of affairs pertaining to the authorities prescribed in the same paragraph are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-204-7/par-1: 第百九十八条第一項 → 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-204-7/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の七第一項 (Article 204-7, paragraph (1)), art-204-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-7/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第七条の二第二項第五号（設立及び業務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-7-2/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-2/par-2/item-5 - 健康保険法 第二百四条第一項（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 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百四条の七第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-7/par-2 - 健康保険法 第二百四条の八第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-8/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第十一条第一項（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-11/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第十一条第二項（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-11/par-2 --- ## 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