# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百五十八条 (Article 158) - 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: 第百五十八条 (Article 158)（保険料の徴収の特例） — address `art-158` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-158 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-158 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百五十八条（保険料の徴収の特例） — (Special Provisions for Insurance Premium Collection) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-158 **第一項** 前月から引き続き被保険者（任意継続被保険者を除く。以下この条、次条及び第百五十九条の三において同じ。）である者が第百十八条第一項各号のいずれかに該当するに至った場合はその月以後、被保険者がその資格を取得した月に同項各号のいずれかに該当するに至った場合はその翌月以後、同項各号のいずれかに該当しなくなった月の前月までの期間、保険料を徴収しない。ただし、被保険者が同項各号のいずれかに該当するに至った月に同項各号のいずれかに該当しなくなったときは、この限りでない。 art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-158/par-1 If a person who has continued to be an insured person from the preceding month (excluding an insured person with optional and continued coverage; hereinafter the same applies to the following Article and Article 159-3) or who becomes eligible to be an insured person falls under any of the items in Article 118, paragraph (1), insurance premiums are not collected from the month in which the person first falls under the item until the month preceding the month in which the person no longer falls under any of the items of the same paragraph; however, this does not apply if the insured person falls under any of the items of the same paragraph and then no longer falls under any of those items in the same month. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a person who has continued to be an insured person from the preceding month (excluding an insured person with optional and continued coverage; hereinafter the same applies to the following Article and Article 159-3) or who becomes eligible to be an insured person falls under any of the items in Article 108, paragraph (1), insurance premiums are not be collected from the month in which the person first falls under the item until the month preceding the month in which the person no longer falls under any of the items of the same paragraph; however, this does not apply if the insured person falls under any of the items of the same paragraph and then no longer falls under any of those items in the same month." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb --- ## Cites - art-158/par-1: この条 → 健康保険法 第百五十八条 (Article 158), art-158 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-158 - art-158/par-1: 次条 → 健康保険法 第百五十九条 (Article 159), art-159 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159 - art-158/par-1: 第百五十九条の三 → 健康保険法 第百五十九条の三 (Article 159-3), art-159-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-159-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159-3 - art-158/par-1: 第百十八条第一項 → 健康保険法 第百十八条第一項 (Article 118, paragraph (1)), art-118/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-118/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百五十八条第一項（保険料の徴収の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-158/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百五条の二第一項第五号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-205-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205-2/par-1/item-5 - 健康保険法 附則第二条第七項（健康保険組合の財政調整） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-2/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-2/par-7 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act (健康保険法), Article 158, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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