# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第五十一条 (Article 51) - 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51)（確認の請求） — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条（確認の請求） — (Request for Confirmation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51 **第一項** 被保険者又は被保険者であった者は、いつでも、第三十九条第一項の規定による確認を請求することができる。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51/par-1 A person who is or was an insured person may at any time demand confirmation pursuant to the provisions of Article 39, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険者等は、前項の規定による請求があった場合において、その請求に係る事実がないと認めるときは、その請求を却下しなければならない。 art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51/par-2 When an insurer receives a request referred to in the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the insurer must dismiss the request if no fact pertaining to it is found. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When an insurer receives a request referred to in the provisions of Article 48, the insurer must dismiss the request if no fact pertaining to it is found." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb --- ## Cites - art-51/par-1: 第三十九条第一項 → 健康保険法 第三十九条第一項 (Article 39, paragraph (1)), art-39/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-39/par-1 - art-51/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第三十九条第二項（資格の得喪の確認） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-39/par-2 - 健康保険法 第五十一条第二項（確認の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51/par-2 - 健康保険法 第二百四条第一項第十号（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-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204/par-1/item-10 --- ## 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 51, paragraph (2) — 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