Article 159-3 — Health Insurance Act — japanlaw

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Article 159-3

第百五十九条の三

When the employer of an insured person who is taking maternity leave applies to an insurer as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, no insurance premiums relating to the insured person are collected during the period from the month including the date on which the maternity leave begins until the month preceding the month including the day after the last day of the maternity leave.

産前産後休業をしている被保険者が使用される事業所の事業主が、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより保険者等に申出をしたときは、その産前産後休業を開始した日の属する月からその産前産後休業が終了する日の翌日が属する月の前月までの期間、当該被保険者に関する保険料を徴収しない。

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insured person
被保険者（ひほけんしゃ）
A person employed at an applicable place of business (適用事業所), or an insured person with optional and continued coverage (任意継続被保険者); the persons listed in the items of Article 3, paragraph (1) — among them some temporary, seasonal and short-time workers and persons insured under late-stage elderly medical care (後期高齢者医療) — cannot be insured persons, except as specially-insured day laborers (日雇特例被保険者).
適用事業所に使用される者及び任意継続被保険者
Article 3, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary
place of business
事業所（じぎょうしょ）
Short for a place of business or office (事業所又は事務所), as the word is used throughout this Act except in Article 88, paragraph (1) and Article 89, paragraph (1).
Article 3, paragraph (1), item (iii)See it in the glossary
insurer, etc.
保険者等（ほけんしゃとう）
Throughout this Act except in Article 164, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 180, paragraphs (1), (2) and (4) and Article 181, paragraph (1): the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for a person insured in the health insurance run by the Japan Health Insurance Association (全国健康保険協会), and the health insurance society (健康保険組合) for a person insured in the health insurance it runs.
被保険者が協会が管掌する健康保険の被保険者である場合にあっては厚生労働大臣、被保険者が健康保険組合が管掌する健康保険の被保険者である場合にあっては当該健康保険組合
Article 39, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary
maternity leave
産前産後休業（さんぜんさんごきゅうぎょう）
Not working, for reasons of pregnancy or childbirth, during the period from 42 days (98 days for a multiple pregnancy) before childbirth — counted from the expected date where the birth comes later — to 56 days after it.
出産の日（出産の日が出産の予定日後であるときは、出産の予定日）以前四十二日（多胎妊娠の場合においては、九十八日）から出産の日後五十六日までの間において労務に服さないこと（妊娠又は出産に関する事由を理由として労務に服さない場合に限る。）
Article 43-3, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary

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as amended by Act Partially Amending the Medical Care Act, etc. (Act No. 87 of 2025)医療法等の一部を改正する法律

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