# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百五十一条 (Article 151) - 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: 第百五十一条 (Article 151)（国庫負担） — address `art-151` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-151 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-151 - 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. --- ### 第百五十一条（国庫負担） — (Share of National Treasury) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-151 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-151 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-151 **第一項** 国庫は、毎年度、予算の範囲内において、健康保険事業の事務（前期高齢者納付金等、後期高齢者支援金等及び第百七十三条の規定による拠出金、介護納付金、感染症の予防及び感染症の患者に対する医療に関する法律の規定による流行初期医療確保拠出金（第百五十三条及び第百五十四条第一項において「流行初期医療確保拠出金」という。）並びに子ども・子育て支援納付金の納付に関する事務を含む。）の執行に要する費用を負担する。 art-151/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-151/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-151/par-1 The national treasury bears the expenses required for the execution of the affairs of health insurance services each fiscal year (including affairs concerning the payment of young-old payments, etc., aid for the old-old, etc., the contributions under the provisions of Article 173, the long-term care payment, the contribution for securing medical care in the early phase of an epidemic under the provisions of the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases (referred to as "contribution for securing medical care in the early phase of an epidemic" in Article 153 and Article 154, paragraph (1)), and the children and child-rearing support levy), within the scope of the budget. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-151/par-1: 第百七十三条 → 健康保険法 第百七十三条 (Article 173), art-173 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-173 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-173 - art-151/par-1: 第百五十三条 → 健康保険法 第百五十三条 (Article 153), art-153 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-153 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-153 - art-151/par-1: 第百五十四条第一項 → 健康保険法 第百五十四条第一項 (Article 154, paragraph (1)), art-154/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-154/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-154/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百五十三条第一項（国庫補助） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-153/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-153/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百五十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-154/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-154/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百五十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-154/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-154/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百五十四条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-154-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-154-2/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百五十五条の二第一項（保険料等の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-155-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-155-2/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百六十条第三項第三号（保険料率） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-160/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160/par-3/item-3 - 健康保険法 附則第四条の二第一項（病床転換支援金の経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-4-2/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第五条の二第一項（国庫補助の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-5-2/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-004, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10