# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百二十条 (Article 120) - 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: 第百二十条 (Article 120) — address `art-120` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-120 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-120 - 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. --- ### 第百二十条 art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-120 **第一項** 保険者は、偽りその他不正の行為により保険給付を受け、又は受けようとした者に対して、六月以内の期間を定め、その者に支給すべき傷病手当金又は出産手当金の全部又は一部を支給しない旨の決定をすることができる。ただし、偽りその他不正の行為があった日から一年を経過したときは、この限りでない。 art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-120/par-1 An insurer may determine not to pay all or some of the injury and sickness allowance or childbirth allowance to a person who received or intended to receive insurance benefits by means of deception or other wrongful conduct for a specified period no longer than six months; however, this does not apply when one year or more has elapsed after the day of the deception or wrongful conduct. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百四十九条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-149/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