# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) - 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59)（文書の提出等） — address `art-59` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条（文書の提出等） — (Submission of Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-59 **第一項** 保険者は、保険給付に関して必要があると認めるときは、保険給付を受ける者（当該保険給付が被扶養者に係るものである場合には、当該被扶養者を含む。第百二十一条において同じ。）に対し、文書その他の物件の提出若しくは提示を命じ、又は当該職員に質問若しくは診断をさせることができる。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-59/par-1 When finding it necessary in relation to insurance benefits, an insurer may order a person who is to receive insurance benefits (including a dependent if the insurance benefits pertain to a dependent; the same applies in Article 121) to submit or present a document or other objects or may have the insurer's official question or diagnose the person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-59/par-1: 第百二十一条 → 健康保険法 第百二十一条 (Article 121), art-121 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-121 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百二十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-121/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百四十九条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-149/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