# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) - 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（適用事業所） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条（適用事業所） — (Applicable Places of Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-31 **第一項** 適用事業所以外の事業所の事業主は、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けて、当該事業所を適用事業所とすることができる。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-31/par-1 An employer of a non-applicable place of business may operate the place of business as an applicable place of business with authorization from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の認可を受けようとするときは、当該事業所の事業主は、当該事業所に使用される者（被保険者となるべき者に限る。）の二分の一以上の同意を得て、厚生労働大臣に申請しなければならない。 art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-31/par-2 When intending to obtain the authorization referred to in the preceding paragraph, the employer of a place of business must, with the consent of half or more of the workers employed at the place of business (limited to those to be insured persons), apply to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for the authorization. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-31/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第三十一条第一項 (Article 31, paragraph (1)), art-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-31/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-13/par-1 - 健康保険法 第十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-14/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二十五条第二項（設立事業所の増減） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-25/par-2 - 健康保険法 第三十一条第二項（適用事業所） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-31/par-2 - 健康保険法 第三十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-32/par-1 - 健康保険法 第三十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-33/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百四条第一項第三号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204/par-1/item-3 - 健康保険法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第二十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/art-25/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