# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百条 (Article 100) - Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号 - English title "Health Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — 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: 第百条 (Article 100)（埋葬料） — address `art-100` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-100 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-100 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs 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. --- ### 第百条（埋葬料） — (Burial Charges) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-100 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-100 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-100 **第一項** 被保険者が死亡したときは、その者により生計を維持していた者であって、埋葬を行うものに対し、埋葬料として、政令で定める金額を支給する。 art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-100/par-1 In the case of the death of an insured person, an amount specified by Cabinet Order is paid as burial charges to the person whose livelihood depends on the income of the insured person and who arranged the burial. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により埋葬料の支給を受けるべき者がない場合においては、埋葬を行った者に対し、同項の金額の範囲内においてその埋葬に要した費用に相当する金額を支給する。 art-100/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-100/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-100/par-2 If there is no one to receive burial charges pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an amount equivalent to the expenses required for the burial within the range of the amount in the same paragraph is paid to the person who arranged the burial. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-100/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百条第一項 (Article 100, paragraph (1)), art-100/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-100/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第五十六条第一項（保険給付の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-56/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百条第二項（埋葬料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-100/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-100/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百五条第二項（資格喪失後の死亡に関する給付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-105/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-105/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百十三条第一項（家族埋葬料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-113/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百三十六条第一項（埋葬料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-136/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-136/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-6/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10