# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) - 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（合併） — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（合併） — (Mergers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-23 **第一項** 健康保険組合は、合併しようとするときは、組合会において組合会議員の定数の四分の三以上の多数により議決し、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-23/par-1 A merger of a health insurance society must be adopted through a resolution by a three-quarter majority of the fixed number of society meeting members in a society meeting and authorization therefore must be obtained from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 合併によって健康保険組合を設立するには、各健康保険組合がそれぞれ組合会において役員又は組合会議員のうちから選任した設立委員が共同して規約を作り、その他設立に必要な行為をしなければならない。 art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-23/par-2 In order to establish a health insurance society by a merger, committee members selected by each health insurance society to be merged from among officers or society meeting members in each of the society meetings must jointly prepare the constitution and take other actions necessary for the establishment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 合併により設立された健康保険組合又は合併後存続する健康保険組合は、合併により消滅した健康保険組合の権利義務を承継する。 art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-23/par-3 A health insurance society established by a merger or that remains after a merger succeeds to the rights and obligations of a health insurance society extinguished due to the merger. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第三条の二第一項（地域型健康保険組合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3-2/par-1 --- ## 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