# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第八十八条 (Article 88) - 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: 第八十八条 (Article 88)（審査委員会の組織） — address `art-88` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-88 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-88 - 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. --- ### 第八十八条（審査委員会の組織） — (Organization of the Review Committee) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-88 **第一項** 審査委員会は、都道府県知事が定める保険医及び保険薬剤師を代表する委員、都道府県及び当該都道府県内の市町村並びに組合（以下「保険者」という。）を代表する委員並びに公益を代表する委員をもつて組織する。 art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-88/par-1 The Review Committee shall be composed of committee members representing health insurance-covered physicians and health insurance-covered pharmacists, committee members representing the prefecture and the Municipalities and Societies within the prefecture (hereinafter referred to as "insurers"), and committee members representing the public interest, as specified by the prefectural governor. machine translation, not official **第二項** 委員は、都道府県知事が委嘱するものとし、その数は、保険医及び保険薬剤師を代表する委員並びに保険者を代表する委員については、それぞれ同数とする。 art-88/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-88/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-88/par-2 Committee members are to be commissioned by the prefectural governor, and the number of committee members is to be the same, respectively, for committee members representing health insurance-covered physicians and health insurance-covered pharmacists and committee members representing insurers. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の委嘱は、保険医及び保険薬剤師を代表する委員並びに保険者を代表する委員については、それぞれ関係団体の推薦によつて行わなければならない。 art-88/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-88/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-88/par-3 Committee members representing health insurance-covered physicians and health insurance-covered pharmacists and committee members representing Insurers must be commissioned pursuant to the preceding paragraph based on recommendations made by concerned organizations in each category. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-88/par-3: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第八十八条第二項 (Article 88, paragraph (2)), art-88/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-88/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-88/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第八十八条第三項（審査委員会の組織） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-88/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-88/par-3 - 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 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十七条第一項（国民健康保険法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-127/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十五条第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-165/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-20261017T183826-009, 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