# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二百五条 (Article 205) - 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: 第二百五条 (Article 205)（地方厚生局長等への権限の委任） — address `art-205` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205 - 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. --- ### 第二百五条（地方厚生局長等への権限の委任） — (Delegation of Authorities to Chiefs of Regional Bureaus of Health and Welfare) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-205 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205 **第一項** この法律に規定する厚生労働大臣の権限（第二百四条の二第一項及び同条第二項において準用する厚生年金保険法第百条の五第二項に規定する厚生労働大臣の権限を除く。）は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、地方厚生局長に委任することができる。 art-205/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205/par-1 The authorities of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in this Act (excluding the authorities of the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare provided for in Article 204-2, paragraph (2) and in Article 100-5, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis to Article 204-2, paragraph (1)) may be delegated to the chief of a relevant regional bureau of health and welfare as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により地方厚生局長に委任された権限は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、地方厚生支局長に委任することができる。 art-205/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205/par-2 The authorities delegated to the chief of a regional bureau of health and welfare pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, may be delegated to a branch manager of the regional bureau of health and welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-205/par-1: 第二百四条の二第一項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の二第一項 (Article 204-2, paragraph (1)), art-204-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-2/par-1 - art-205/par-1: 同条第二項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の二第二項 (Article 204-2, paragraph (2)), art-204-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-2/par-2 - art-205/par-1: 厚生年金保険法第百条の五第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第百条の五第二項 (Article 100-5, paragraph (2)), art-100-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-5/par-2 - art-205/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第二百五条第一項 (Article 205, paragraph (1)), art-205/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第二百五条第二項（地方厚生局長等への権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205/par-2 - 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