# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二十四条 (Article 24) - 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: 第二十四条 (Article 24)（分割） — address `art-24` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-24 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条（分割） — (Split) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-24 **第一項** 健康保険組合は、分割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-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-24/par-1 Any split 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 therefor must be obtained from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 健康保険組合の分割は、設立事業所の一部について行うことはできない。 art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-24/par-2 A split of a health insurance society cannot be applied to a part of an establishment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 分割を行う場合においては、分割により設立される健康保険組合の組合員となるべき被保険者又は分割後存続する健康保険組合の組合員である被保険者の数が、第十一条第一項（健康保険組合を共同して設立している場合にあっては、同条第二項）の政令で定める数以上でなければならない。 art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-24/par-3 In performing a split, the number of insured persons who are to be society members of a health insurance society established by the split or insured persons who are society members of a health insurance society that remains after the split must be no less than the number specified by Cabinet Order under Article 11, paragraph (1) (paragraph (2) of the same Article if the health insurance society is jointly established). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 分割によって健康保険組合を設立するには、分割により設立される健康保険組合の設立事業所となるべき適用事業所の事業主が規約を作り、その他設立に必要な行為をしなければならない。 art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-24/par-4 In order to establish a health insurance society by a split, employers of applicable places of business that are to be an establishment must prepare the constitution and take other actions necessary for the establishment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 分割により設立された健康保険組合は、分割により消滅した健康保険組合又は分割後存続する健康保険組合の権利義務の一部を承継する。 art-24/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-24/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-24/par-5 A health insurance society established by a split succeeds to some of the rights and obligations of a health insurance society extinguished due to the split or of a health insurance society that remains after the split. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 前項の規定により承継する権利義務の限度は、分割の議決とともに議決し、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 art-24/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-24/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-24/par-6 The limit to the rights and obligations succeeded to pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be decided as a part of the resolution on the split and authorization therefor must be obtained from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-24/par-3: 第十一条第一項 → 健康保険法 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-11/par-1 - art-24/par-3: 同条第二項 → 健康保険法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-11/par-2 - art-24/par-6: 前項 → 健康保険法 第二十四条第五項 (Article 24, paragraph (5)), art-24/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-24/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-24/par-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第二十四条第六項（分割） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-24/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-24/par-6 --- ## 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