# 健康保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act — 第十九条 (Article 19)

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- Law: 健康保険法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act), 大正十五年勅令第二百四十三号
- English title "Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act": claude-opus-5-5
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- Provision: 第十九条 (Article 19)（出納閉鎖期） — address `art-19`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-19
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### 第十九条（出納閉鎖期） — Closing Period for Accounts
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-19</sup>

  **第一項**  健康保険組合において、収入金を収納するのは翌年度の五月三十一日、支出金を支払うのは翌年度の四月三十日限りとする。
  <sup>art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-19/par-1</sup>
  In a health insurance society, revenue funds are to be received only up to May 31 of the following fiscal year, and expenditure funds are to be paid only up to April 30 of the following fiscal year.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 健康保険法施行令 第六十条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-60/par-1

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-06
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/215IO0000000243/20261001_508CO0000000276), retrieved 2026-11-06
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-003, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 229 — 健康保険法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06
