# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二百四条の八 (Article 204-8) - 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: 第二百四条の八 (Article 204-8)（協会が行う立入検査等に係る認可等） — address `art-204-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-8 - 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. --- ### 第二百四条の八（協会が行う立入検査等に係る認可等） — (Authorization Pertaining to On-site Inspection Executed by JHIA) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-204-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-8 **第一項** 協会は、前条第一項に規定する権限に係る事務を行う場合には、あらかじめ、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 art-204-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-8/par-1 When JHIA administers affairs pertaining to the authorities prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, it must obtain authorization from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in advance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する場合における第百九十八条第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「被保険者の資格、標準報酬、保険料又は保険給付」とあるのは「保険給付」と、「当該職員」とあるのは「協会の職員」とする。 art-204-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-8/par-2 When applying the provisions of Article 198, paragraph (1) in the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the phrase "insured person's eligibility, standard remuneration, insurance premiums, or insurance benefits" in the same paragraph is replaced with "insurance benefits", and "the ministry's official" with "an employee of JHIA". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-204-8/par-1: 前条第一項 → 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 - art-204-8/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の八第一項 (Article 204-8, paragraph (1)), art-204-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-8/par-1 - art-204-8/par-2: 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 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第二百二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-222/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-222/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