# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第四十一条 (Article 41) - 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: 第四十一条 (Article 41)（定時決定） — address `art-41` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-41 - 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. --- ### 第四十一条（定時決定） — (Scheduled Decision) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-41 **第一項** 保険者等は、被保険者が毎年七月一日現に使用される事業所において同日前三月間（その事業所で継続して使用された期間に限るものとし、かつ、報酬支払の基礎となった日数が十七日（厚生労働省令で定める者にあっては、十一日。第四十三条第一項、第四十三条の二第一項及び第四十三条の三第一項において同じ。）未満である月があるときは、その月を除く。）に受けた報酬の総額をその期間の月数で除して得た額を報酬月額として、標準報酬月額を決定する。 art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-41/par-1 An insurer determines the standard monthly remuneration amount based on the monthly remuneration amount which is obtained by dividing the total amount of remuneration received by the insured person at the place of business at which the person is employed as of July 1 each year for the preceding three-month period (limited to a period of consecutive employment at the place of business, and excluding any month in which the number of days based on which remuneration is paid is less than 17 days (11 days for persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies in Article 43, paragraph (1), Article 43-2, paragraph (1) and Article 43-3, paragraph (1))) by the number of months in that period. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An insurer determines the standard monthly remuneration amount based on the monthly remuneration amount which is obtained by dividing the total amount of remuneration received by the insured person at the place of business at which the person is employed as of July 1 each year for the preceding three-month period (limited to a period of consecutive employment at the place of business, and excluding any month in which the number of days based on which remuneration is paid is less than 17 days (11 days for persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies in Article 43, paragraph (1), Article 43-2, paragraph (1) and Article 43-3, paragraph (1))) by three." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb **第二項** 前項の規定によって決定された標準報酬月額は、その年の九月から翌年の八月までの各月の標準報酬月額とする。 art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-41/par-2 A standard monthly remuneration amount determined pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the standard monthly remuneration amount of each month from September in the relevant year until August in the following year. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定は、六月一日から七月一日までの間に被保険者の資格を取得した者及び第四十三条、第四十三条の二又は第四十三条の三の規定により七月から九月までのいずれかの月から標準報酬月額を改定され、又は改定されるべき被保険者については、その年に限り適用しない。 art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-41/par-3 Regarding persons who obtained eligibility as an insured person during the period between June 1 and July 1 or insured persons whose standard monthly remuneration amount has been or is to be revised in any month from July through September pursuant to the provisions of Articles 43, 43-2 or 43-3, the provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply during that year. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-41/par-1: 第四十三条第一項 → 健康保険法 第四十三条第一項 (Article 43, paragraph (1)), art-43/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-43/par-1 - art-41/par-1: 第四十三条の二第一項 → 健康保険法 第四十三条の二第一項 (Article 43-2, paragraph (1)), art-43-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-43-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-43-2/par-1 - art-41/par-1: 第四十三条の三第一項 → 健康保険法 第四十三条の三第一項 (Article 43-3, paragraph (1)), art-43-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-43-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-43-3/par-1 - art-41/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-41/par-1 - art-41/par-3: 第一項 → 健康保険法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-41/par-1 - art-41/par-3: 第四十三条 → 健康保険法 第四十三条 (Article 43), art-43 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-43 - art-41/par-3: 第四十三条の二 → 健康保険法 第四十三条の二 (Article 43-2), art-43-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-43-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-43-2 - art-41/par-3: 第四十三条の三 → 健康保険法 第四十三条の三 (Article 43-3), art-43-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-43-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-43-3 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第四十一条第二項（定時決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-41/par-2 - 健康保険法 第四十一条第三項（定時決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-41/par-3 - 健康保険法 第四十三条の二第一項（育児休業等を終了した際の改定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-43-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-43-2/par-1 - 健康保険法 第四十三条の三第一項（産前産後休業を終了した際の改定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-43-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-43-3/par-1 - 健康保険法 第四十四条第一項（報酬月額の算定の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-44/par-1 - 健康保険法 第四十四条第三項（報酬月額の算定の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-44/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-44/par-3 - 健康保険法 第四十七条第一項（任意継続被保険者の標準報酬月額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百四条第一項第五号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-204/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204/par-1/item-5 - 健康保険法 附則第三条第四項（特定健康保険組合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3/par-4 --- ## 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 41, 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