# 健康保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act — 第四十八条 (Article 48) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-48. 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（保険料の前納期間） — address `art-48` - 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-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（保険料の前納期間） — Period for Advance Payment of Premiums caption: machine translation, not official art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-48 **第一項** 法第百六十五条第一項の規定による保険料の前納は、四月から九月まで若しくは十月から翌年三月までの六月間又は四月から翌年三月までの十二月間を単位として行うものとする。ただし、当該六月又は十二月の間において、任意継続被保険者の資格を取得した者又はその資格を喪失することが明らかである者については、当該六月間又は十二月間のうち、その資格を取得した日の属する月の翌月以降の期間又はその資格を喪失する日の属する月の前月までの期間の保険料について前納を行うことができる。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-48/par-1 Advance payment of premiums pursuant to Article 165, paragraph (1) of the Act is to be made in units of six months, from April to September or from October to March of the following year, or 12 months, from April to March of the following year; provided, however, that for a person who acquires status as an insured person with optional and continued coverage, or who is clearly to lose that status, during those six or 12 months, advance payment may be made of the premiums for the period, within those six or 12 months, from the month following the month containing the day on which the person acquires that status, or up to the month preceding the month containing the day on which the person loses that status. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-48/par-1: 法第百六十五条第一項 → 健康保険法 第百六十五条第一項 (Article 165, paragraph (1)), art-165/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-165/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 211AC0000000070) ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法施行令 第五十二条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-52/par-1 - 健康保険法施行令 第五十三条第一項（厚生労働省令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-53/par-1 --- ## 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-20261106T164949-017, translated 2026-11-08 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch health-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-017, translated 2026-11-08 - 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