# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二百二十一条 (Article 221) - 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: 第二百二十一条 (Article 221) — address `art-221` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-221 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-221 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十一条 art-221 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-221 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-221 **第一項** 機構の役員は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、二十万円以下の過料に処する。 art-221/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-221/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-221/par-1 An officer of JPS who falls under any of the following items is subject to a non-criminal fine of not more than 200,000 yen: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第二百四条の三第一項、同条第二項において準用する厚生年金保険法第百条の六第二項、第二百四条の四第一項、第二百四条の五第一項及び第二百四条の六第二項において準用する同法第百条の十一第二項の規定により厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない場合において、その認可を受けなかったとき。 art-221/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-221/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-221/par-1/item-1 the officer fails to obtain authorization when authorization must be obtained from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of Article 204-3, paragraph (1), Article 100-6, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 204-3, paragraph (2), Article 204-4, paragraph (1), Article 204-5, paragraph (1), or Article 100-11, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 204-6, paragraph (2); or Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the officer fails to obtain authorization when authorization must be obtained from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of Article 204-3, paragraph (1), Article 100-6, paragraph (2) of the Welfare Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis to Article 204-3, paragraph (2), Article 204-4, paragraph (1), Article 204-5, paragraph (1), or Article 100-11, paragraph (2) of the Welfare Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 204-6, paragraph (2); or" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb **二** 第二百四条の四第二項において準用する厚生年金保険法第百条の七第三項の規定による命令に違反したとき。 art-221/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-221/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-221/par-1/item-2 the officer violates an order pursuant to the provisions of Article 100-7, paragraph (3) of the Employee's Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis to Article 204-4, paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-221/par-1/item-1: 第二百四条の三第一項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の三第一項 (Article 204-3, paragraph (1)), art-204-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-3/par-1 - art-221/par-1/item-1: 同条第二項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の三第二項 (Article 204-3, paragraph (2)), art-204-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-3/par-2 - art-221/par-1/item-1: 厚生年金保険法第百条の六第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第百条の六第二項 (Article 100-6, paragraph (2)), art-100-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-6/par-2 - art-221/par-1/item-1: 第二百四条の四第一項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の四第一項 (Article 204-4, paragraph (1)), art-204-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-4/par-1 - art-221/par-1/item-1: 第二百四条の五第一項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の五第一項 (Article 204-5, paragraph (1)), art-204-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-5/par-1 - art-221/par-1/item-1: 第二百四条の六第二項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の六第二項 (Article 204-6, paragraph (2)), art-204-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-6/par-2 - art-221/par-1/item-1: 同法第百条の十一第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十一第二項 (Article 100-11, paragraph (2)), art-100-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-11/par-2 - art-221/par-1/item-2: 第二百四条の四第二項 → 健康保険法 第二百四条の四第二項 (Article 204-4, paragraph (2)), art-204-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204-4/par-2 - art-221/par-1/item-2: 厚生年金保険法第百条の七第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第百条の七第三項 (Article 100-7, paragraph (3)), art-100-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-7/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act (健康保険法), Article 221, paragraph (1), item (i) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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