# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二百九条 (Article 209) - 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: 第二百九条 (Article 209) — address `art-209` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-209 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-209 - 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. --- ### 第二百九条 art-209 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-209 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-209 **第一項** 事業主以外の者が、正当な理由がなくて第百九十八条第一項の規定による当該職員の質問に対して、答弁せず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をし、又は同項の規定による検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避したときは、六月以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-209/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-209/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-209/par-1 When a person other than an employer, without justifiable grounds, fails to answer a question asked by the relevant official pursuant to the provisions of Article 198, paragraph (1) or answers the question untruthfully, or refuses, obstructs, or evades an inspection conducted pursuant to the same paragraph, the person is subject to imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 300,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-209/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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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