# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第百二十四条 (Article 124) - Law: 国民健康保険法 (National Health Insurance Act), 昭和三十三年法律第百九十二号 - English title "National 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: 第百二十四条 (Article 124) — address `art-124` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-124 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-124 - 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. --- ### 第百二十四条 art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-124 **第一項** 医師、歯科医師、薬剤師若しくは手当を行つた者又はこれを使用する者が、第百十四条第一項の規定により報告若しくは診療録、帳簿書類その他の物件の提示を命ぜられ、正当な理由なしにこれに従わず、又は同条同項の規定による当該職員の質問に対して、正当な理由なしに答弁せず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をしたときは、十万円以下の過料に処する。 art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-124/par-1 When a physician, dentist or pharmacist or any person who gave treatment or any person who employs any of the above fails, without a justifiable reason, to comply with an order to make a report or present medical records, the books and other documents or any other article issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 114, paragraph (1) or, without a justifiable reason, fails to reply, or makes a false reply, to any question asked by the relevant personnel pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph of the same Article, said person shall be punished by a non-criminal fine of not more than 100,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-124/par-1: 第百十四条第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第百十四条第一項 (Article 114, paragraph (1)), art-114/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-114/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-114/par-1 - art-124/par-1: 同条 → 国民健康保険法 第百十四条 (Article 114), art-114 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-114 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-114 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/333AC0000000192/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — National Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17