# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百九十四条 (Article 194)

- 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: 第百九十四条 (Article 194)（期間の計算） — address `art-194`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-194
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194
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### 第百九十四条（期間の計算） — (Calculation of Period)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-194 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-194 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194</sup>

**第一項**  この法律又はこの法律に基づく命令に規定する期間の計算については、民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）の期間に関する規定を準用する。
<sup>art-194/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-194/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-194/par-1</sup>
The provisions of the Civil Code (Act No. 89 of 1896) concerning periods apply mutatis mutandis to the calculation of periods prescribed in this Act or orders based on this Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261010T183826-005, 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