# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第九十一条 (Article 91)

- 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: 第九十一条 (Article 91)（審査請求） — address `art-91`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-91
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-91
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### 第九十一条（審査請求） — (Application for Examination)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-91</sup>

**第一項**  保険給付に関する処分（第九条第二項及び第四項の規定による求めに対する処分を含む。）又は保険料その他この法律の規定による徴収金に関する処分に不服がある者は、国民健康保険審査会に審査請求をすることができる。
<sup>art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-91/par-1</sup>
A person who is dissatisfied with any action with respect to an insurance benefit (including action in response to a request pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraphs (2) and (4)) or any action with respect to insurance premiums or any other money collected pursuant to the provisions of this Act may file an application for examination with the National Health Insurance Examination Board.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の審査請求は、時効の完成猶予及び更新に関しては、裁判上の請求とみなす。
<sup>art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-91/par-2</sup>
An application for examination as referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be a judicial claim in terms of postponement of the completion and renewal of prescription.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-91/par-1: 第九条第二項 → 国民健康保険法 第九条第二項 (Article 9, paragraph (2)), art-9/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-9/par-2
- art-91/par-1: 第四項 → 国民健康保険法 第九条第四項 (Article 9, paragraph (4)), art-9/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-9/par-4
- art-91/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第九十一条第一項 (Article 91, paragraph (1)), art-91/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-91/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 国民健康保険法 第九十一条第二項（審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-91/par-2
- 国民健康保険法 第百三条第一項（審査請求と訴訟との関係） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-103/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-20261017T183826-009, 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
