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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="200" PromulgateDay="17" PromulgateMonth="12" Year="22">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law concerning the Partial Amendments to the Health Insurance Law and the Welfare Pensions Insurance Law.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This seventeenth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (December 17, 1947)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KATAYAMA Tetsu</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.200</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Article Num="1">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 1.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>A part of the Health Insurance Law shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>"Imperial Ordinance" shall read "Cabinet Order."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <NewProvision>
              <Article Num="8_2">
                <ArticleTitle>Art.8-(2).</ArticleTitle>
                <Paragraph Num="1">
                  <ParagraphNum/>
                  <ParagraphSentence>
                    <Sentence>The-insurer may, as regulated in the Departmental Ordinance, have an insured person or a person to receive an insurance benefit make a notification, or a notice or present a document necessary for the execution of Health Insurance to the insurer or to an employer.</Sentence>
                  </ParagraphSentence>
                </Paragraph>
              </Article>
            </NewProvision>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Art.81 and 84, "or bring a suit to the Court of Administrative Litigation" shall be deleted.</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Arts.84-(2), or administrative litigation"shall be deleted.</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Art.85, Par 2 "district court" shall read "local court or summary court."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Art.86, "or administrative Litigation" shall be deleted.</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>Art.88-(2) shall be Art.88-(3).</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <NewProvision>
              <Article Num="88_2">
                <ArticleTitle>Art.88-(2).</ArticleTitle>
                <Paragraph Num="1">
                  <ParagraphNum/>
                  <ParagraphSentence>
                    <Sentence>In case, without a good reason, a person, in violation of the order issued upon Art.8-(2), does not make a notification or a notice, or makes a false notification or notice, or does not present a document, or makes a false record in a document, he shall be condemned to a fine not exceeding 5,000 yen.</Sentence>
                  </ParagraphSentence>
                </Paragraph>
              </Article>
            </NewProvision>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>Art.90, Par.2 shall be deleted.</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Art.91, "Art.88-(2)," shall read "Art.88-(3)."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="2">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 2.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>A part of Welfare Pensions Insurance Law shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>"Imperial Ordinance" shall read "Cabinet Order."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <NewProvision>
              <Article Num="9_2">
                <ArticleTitle>Art.9-(2).</ArticleTitle>
                <Paragraph Num="1">
                  <ParagraphNum/>
                  <ParagraphSentence>
                    <Sentence>The administrative office may, in accordance with the provisions of the Order, have an insured person or a person to receive an insurance benefit make a notification or a notice or present a document necessary for the execution of the Welfare Pensions Insurance to the administrative office or to an employer.</Sentence>
                  </ParagraphSentence>
                </Paragraph>
              </Article>
            </NewProvision>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Art.63, "or bring a suit to the Court of Administrative Litigation" shall be deleted.</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Art.66, "or administrative litigation" shall be deleted.</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The present Law shall come into force as from January 1, 1948.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Justice</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>SUZUKI Yoshio</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Welfase</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KATAYAMA Tetsu</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>