# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第八十条の二 (Article 80-2) - 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: 第八十条の二 (Article 80-2)（保険料の徴収の委託） — address `art-80-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-80-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-80-2 - 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. --- ### 第八十条の二（保険料の徴収の委託） — (Entrustment of the Collection of Insurance Premiums) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-80-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-80-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-80-2 **第一項** 市町村は、普通徴収の方法による保険料の徴収の事務については、収入の確保及び被保険者の便益の増進に寄与すると認める場合に限り、地方自治法第二百四十三条の二第一項の規定により指定する者に委託することができる。 art-80-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-80-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-80-2/par-1 A Municipality may entrust its affairs for the collection of insurance premiums by means of ordinary collection to a person designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 243-2, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act where and only where it is found that such entrustment will contribute to the assurance of income and to the promotion of the convenience of insured persons. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-80-2/par-1: 地方自治法第二百四十三条の二第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百四十三条の二第一項 (Article 243-2, paragraph (1)), art-243-2/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第八十一条第一項（条例又は規約への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-81/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-health-insurance-act-20261017T183826-006, 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