# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二十六条 (Article 26) - 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26)（解散） — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26 - 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. --- ### 第二十六条（解散） — (Dissolution) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26 **第一項** 健康保険組合は、次に掲げる理由により解散する。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-1 A health insurance society is dissolved for any of the reasons listed below: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 組合会議員の定数の四分の三以上の多数による組合会の議決 art-26/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-1/item-1 a resolution by a three-quarter majority of the fixed number of society meeting members in a society meeting; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 健康保険組合の事業の継続の不能 art-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-1/item-2 the impossibility of the continuation of the business of the health insurance society; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 第二十九条第二項の規定による解散の命令 art-26/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-1/item-3 a dissolution order pursuant to the provisions of Article 29, paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 健康保険組合は、前項第一号又は第二号に掲げる理由により解散しようとするときは、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-2 Authorization must be obtained from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for the dissolution of a health insurance society for a reason listed in item (i) or (ii) of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 健康保険組合が解散する場合において、その財産をもって債務を完済することができないときは、当該健康保険組合は、設立事業所の事業主に対し、政令で定めるところにより、当該債務を完済するために要する費用の全部又は一部を負担することを求めることができる。 art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-3 If a health insurance society is dissolved and it is unable to pay its debts in full with its property, the health insurance society may request the employers of the establishments to bear all or part of the expenses required to pay its debts in full as specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 協会は、解散により消滅した健康保険組合の権利義務を承継する。 art-26/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-4 JHIA succeeds to the rights and obligations of a health insurance society extinguished due to dissolution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-26/par-1/item-3: 第二十九条第二項 → 健康保険法 第二十九条第二項 (Article 29, paragraph (2)), art-29/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-29/par-2 - art-26/par-2: 前項第一号 → 健康保険法 第二十六条第一項第一号 (Article 26, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-26/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-1/item-1 - art-26/par-2: 第二号 → 健康保険法 第二十六条第一項第二号 (Article 26, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-26/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第二十六条第二項（解散） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-26/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百八十条第一項（保険料等の督促及び滞納処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-180/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-180/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百八十八条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-188/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-188/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