# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第二十四条の四 (Article 24-4) - 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: 第二十四条の四 (Article 24-4)（仮理事） — address `art-24-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-24-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-24-4 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条の四（仮理事） — (Provisional Director) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-24-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-24-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-24-4 **第一項** 理事が欠けた場合において、事務が遅滞することにより損害を生ずるおそれがあるときは、都道府県知事は、利害関係人の請求により又は職権で、仮理事を選任しなければならない。 art-24-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-24-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-24-4/par-1 In cases where there is any vacancy in the position of director and when damage is likely to occur due to a delay in business, the prefectural governor must appoint a provisional director at the request of any interested person or by said person's authority. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第八十六条第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-86/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 第百十九条の二第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-119-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-119-2/par-1 --- ## 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