# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第三十二条 (Article 32)

- 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: 第三十二条 (Article 32)（解散） — address `art-32`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32
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### 第三十二条（解散） — (Dissolution)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32</sup>

  **第一項**  組合は、次の各号に掲げる理由により解散する。
  <sup>art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32/par-1</sup>
  A Society shall be dissolved for any of the reasons listed in the following items:
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **一**  組合会の議決
    <sup>art-32/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32/par-1/item-1</sup>
    a decision by the Society meeting;
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **二**  規約で定めた解散理由の発生
    <sup>art-32/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32/par-1/item-2</sup>
    the occurrence of a reason for dissolution set forth in the Society's constitution;
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **三**  第百八条第四項又は第五項の規定による解散命令
    <sup>art-32/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32/par-1/item-3</sup>
    a dissolution order issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 108, paragraph (4) or (5);
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **四**  合併
    <sup>art-32/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32/par-1/item-4</sup>
    a merger.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  組合は、前項第一号又は第二号に掲げる理由により解散しようとするときは、厚生労働省令の定めるところにより、都道府県知事の認可を受けなければならない。
  <sup>art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32/par-2</sup>
  Dissolution of a Society for the reason listed in item (i) or (ii) of the preceding paragraph must obtain authorization of the prefectural governor pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-32/par-1/item-3: 第百八条第四項 → 国民健康保険法 第百八条第四項 (Article 108, paragraph (4)), art-108/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-108/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-108/par-4
- art-32/par-1/item-3: 第五項 → 国民健康保険法 第百八条第五項 (Article 108, paragraph (5)), art-108/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-108/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-108/par-5
- art-32/par-2: 前項第一号 → 国民健康保険法 第三十二条第一項第一号 (Article 32, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-32/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32/par-1/item-1
- art-32/par-2: 第二号 → 国民健康保険法 第三十二条第一項第二号 (Article 32, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-32/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32/par-1/item-2

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 国民健康保険法 第三十二条第二項（解散） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-32/par-2
- 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

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-health-insurance-act-20261017T183826-002, translated 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17