# 健康保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act — 第二十一条 (Article 21) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-21. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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 - Kind: ImperialOrder — 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（繰替使用等） — address `art-21` - 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-21 - e-Gov law ID: 215IO0000000243 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第二十一条（繰替使用等） — Temporary Diversion, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-21 **第一項** 健康保険組合は、支払上現金に不足を生じたときは、準備金に属する現金を繰替使用し、又は一時借入金をすることができる。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-21/par-1 When a health insurance society has a shortage of cash for payments, it may temporarily divert cash belonging to the reserves or make temporary borrowings. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により繰替使用した金額及び一時借入金は、当該会計年度内に返還しなければならない。 art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-21/par-2 The amount temporarily diverted and the temporary borrowings under the preceding paragraph must be returned within that fiscal year. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-21/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法施行令 第二十一条第一項 (Article 21, paragraph (1)), art-21/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-21/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法施行令 第二十一条第二項（繰替使用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-21/par-2 --- ## 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