# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第二十六条 (Article 26) - 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26)（組合会） — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-26 - 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. --- ### 第二十六条（組合会） — (Society Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-26 **第一項** 組合に組合会を置く。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-26/par-1 A Society shall have Society meetings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 組合会は、組合会議員をもつて組織するものとし、組合会議員の定数は、組合員の総数の二十分の一を下らない範囲内において、規約で定める。ただし、組合員の総数が六百人をこえる組合にあつては、三十人以上であることをもつて足りる。 art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-26/par-2 A Society meeting shall be composed of Society council members, whose fixed number shall be specified by its constitution within a range not less than one-twentieth of the total number of Society members; provided, however, that in cases where a Society has more than six hundred members in total, having at least thirty Society council members will suffice. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 組合会議員は、規約の定めるところにより、組合員が、組合員のうちから選挙する。 art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-26/par-3 Society council members shall be elected by Society members from among themselves pursuant to the provisions of the Society's constitution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 組合会議員の任期は、三年をこえない範囲内において、規約で定める。 art-26/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-26/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-26/par-4 The term of office of Society council members shall be specified by the Society's constitution within a period not exceeding three years. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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 --- ## 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