# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28) - 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（組合会の招集） — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条（組合会の招集） — (Convocation of Society Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-28 **第一項** 理事は、規約の定めるところにより、毎年度一回通常組合会を招集しなければならない。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-28/par-1 Directors must, pursuant to the provisions of a Society's constitution, convene an ordinary Society meeting once annually. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 組合会議員が、その定数の三分の一以上の同意を得て、会議の目的である事項及び招集の理由を記載した書面を組合に提出して組合会の招集を請求したときは、理事は、その請求があつた日から起算して二十日以内に、臨時組合会を招集しなければならない。 art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-28/par-2 When a Society meeting member requests, upon the consent of no less than one-third of the fixed number of Society council members, the convocation of a Society meeting by submitting a document stating the subject matter of such meeting and the reasons for such convocation to said Society, the directors must convene an extraordinary Society meeting within twenty days from the day of such request. 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