# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3) - 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: 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3)（被保険者の資格の確認に必要な書面の交付等） — address `art-51-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-3 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条の三（被保険者の資格の確認に必要な書面の交付等） — Delivery, etc. of Documents Necessary for Confirming Eligibility as an Insured Person caption: machine translation, not official art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-3 **第一項** 被保険者又はその被扶養者が電子資格確認を受けることができない状況にあるときは、当該被保険者は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、保険者に対し、当該状況にある被保険者若しくはその被扶養者の資格に係る情報として厚生労働省令で定める事項を記載した書面の交付又は当該事項の電磁的方法（電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法であって厚生労働省令で定めるものをいう。以下この条において同じ。）による提供を求めることができる。この場合において、当該保険者は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、速やかに、当該書面の交付の求めを行った被保険者に対しては当該書面を交付するものとし、当該電磁的方法による提供の求めを行った被保険者に対しては当該事項を電磁的方法により提供するものとする。 art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-3/par-1 When an insured person or the insured person's dependent is in a situation where the insured person or dependent cannot undergo electronic eligibility confirmation, the insured person may, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, request the insurer to deliver a document stating the matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as information relating to the eligibility of the insured person or the insured person's dependent who is in that situation, or to provide those matters by electronic or magnetic means (meaning a method using an electronic data processing system or another method using information and communications technology that is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter in this Article). In this case, the insurer is, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to promptly deliver the document to the insured person who has made the request for delivery of the document, and to provide the matters by electronic or magnetic means to the insured person who has made the request for provision by electronic or magnetic means. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により同項の書面の交付を受け、若しくは電磁的方法により同項の厚生労働省令で定める事項の提供を受けた被保険者又はその被扶養者は、当該書面又は当該事項を厚生労働省令で定める方法により表示したものを提示することにより、第六十三条第三項（第百十条第七項において準用する場合を含む。）、第八十五条第一項、第八十五条の二第一項、第八十六条第一項又は第八十八条第三項（第百十一条第三項において準用する場合を含む。）の確認を受けることができる。 art-51-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-3/par-2 An insured person or the insured person's dependent who has received the document referred to in the preceding paragraph pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, or who has been provided by electronic or magnetic means with the matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in that paragraph, may receive the confirmation referred to in Article 63, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 110, paragraph (7)), Article 85, paragraph (1), Article 85-2, paragraph (1), Article 86, paragraph (1), or Article 88, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 111, paragraph (3)) by presenting the document, or a display of those matters made by a method specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-51-3/par-1: この条 → 健康保険法 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3), art-51-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-3 - art-51-3/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第五十一条の三第一項 (Article 51-3, paragraph (1)), art-51-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-3/par-1 - art-51-3/par-2: 第六十三条第三項 → 健康保険法 第六十三条第三項 (Article 63, paragraph (3)), art-63/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-63/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-63/par-3 - art-51-3/par-2: 第百十条第七項 → 健康保険法 第百十条第七項 (Article 110, paragraph (7)), art-110/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-110/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-110/par-7 - art-51-3/par-2: 第八十五条第一項 → 健康保険法 第八十五条第一項 (Article 85, paragraph (1)), art-85/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-85/par-1 - art-51-3/par-2: 第八十五条の二第一項 → 健康保険法 第八十五条の二第一項 (Article 85-2, paragraph (1)), art-85-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-85-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-85-2/par-1 - art-51-3/par-2: 第八十六条第一項 → 健康保険法 第八十六条第一項 (Article 86, paragraph (1)), art-86/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-86/par-1 - art-51-3/par-2: 第八十八条第三項 → 健康保険法 第八十八条第三項 (Article 88, paragraph (3)), art-88/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-88/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-88/par-3 - art-51-3/par-2: 第百十一条第三項 → 健康保険法 第百十一条第三項 (Article 111, paragraph (3)), art-111/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-111/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-111/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第五十一条の三第一項（被保険者の資格の確認に必要な書面の交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-3/par-1 - 健康保険法 第五十一条の三第二項（被保険者の資格の確認に必要な書面の交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-3/par-2 - 健康保険法 附則第十五条第一項（健康保険法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5051-48/art-15/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-001, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10