# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第四十七条 (Article 47) - 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: 第四十七条 (Article 47)（任意継続被保険者の標準報酬月額） — address `art-47` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-47 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47 - 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. --- ### 第四十七条（任意継続被保険者の標準報酬月額） — (Standard Monthly Remuneration Amount of Insured Persons With Optional and Continued Coverage) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47 **第一項** 任意継続被保険者の標準報酬月額については、第四十一条から第四十四条までの規定にかかわらず、次の各号に掲げる額のうちいずれか少ない額をもって、その者の標準報酬月額とする。 art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 41 through 44, with respect to the standard monthly remuneration amount of an insured person with optional and continued coverage, the smaller amount between the amounts listed in the following items is the person's standard monthly remuneration amount: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該任意継続被保険者が被保険者の資格を喪失したときの標準報酬月額 art-47/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-47/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47/par-1/item-1 the standard monthly remuneration amount to be paid when the insured person with optional and continued coverage has lost eligibility as an insured person; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 前年（一月から三月までの標準報酬月額については、前々年）の九月三十日における当該任意継続被保険者の属する保険者が管掌する全被保険者の同月の標準報酬月額を平均した額（健康保険組合が当該平均した額の範囲内においてその規約で定めた額があるときは、当該規約で定めた額）を標準報酬月額の基礎となる報酬月額とみなしたときの標準報酬月額 art-47/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-47/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47/par-1/item-2 the standard monthly remuneration amount calculated when the average standard monthly remuneration amount of all insured persons administered by the insurer (if the health insurance association has any amount specified in its constitution within the range of the average amount, that amount) that provided insurance to the insured person with optional and continued coverage on September 30 in the preceding year (for the standard monthly remuneration amount from January to March, the year prior to the preceding year) is deemed to be the monthly remuneration amount that is the basis of the standard monthly remuneration amount. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険者が健康保険組合である場合においては、前項の規定にかかわらず、同項第一号に掲げる額が同項第二号に掲げる額を超える任意継続被保険者について、規約で定めるところにより、同項第一号に掲げる額（当該健康保険組合が同項第二号に掲げる額を超え同項第一号に掲げる額未満の範囲内においてその規約で定めた額があるときは、当該規約で定めた額を標準報酬月額の基礎となる報酬月額とみなしたときの標準報酬月額）をその者の標準報酬月額とすることができる。 art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47/par-2 In the case where the insurer is a health insurance society, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, with respect to an insured person with optional and continued coverage for whom the amount listed in item (i) of that paragraph exceeds the amount listed in item (ii) of that paragraph, the health insurance society may, as provided in its constitution, make the amount listed in item (i) of that paragraph (if the health insurance society has an amount that its constitution specifies within the range exceeding the amount listed in item (ii) of that paragraph and less than the amount listed in item (i) of that paragraph, the standard monthly remuneration amount calculated when the amount so specified in its constitution is deemed to be the monthly remuneration amount that is the basis of the standard monthly remuneration amount) the person's standard monthly remuneration amount. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-47/par-1: 第四十一条から第四十四条まで → 健康保険法 第四十一条 (Article 41), art-41 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-41 - art-47/par-1: 第四十一条から第四十四条まで → 健康保険法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-42 - art-47/par-1: 第四十一条から第四十四条まで → 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-47/par-1: 第四十一条から第四十四条まで → 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-47/par-1: 第四十一条から第四十四条まで → 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 - art-47/par-1: 第四十一条から第四十四条まで → 健康保険法 第四十四条 (Article 44), art-44 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-44 - art-47/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47/par-1 - art-47/par-2: 同項第一号 → 健康保険法 第四十七条第一項第一号 (Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-47/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-47/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47/par-1/item-1 - art-47/par-2: 同項第二号 → 健康保険法 第四十七条第一項第二号 (Article 47, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-47/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-47/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第四十七条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-47/par-2 - 健康保険法 附則第三条第一項（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5031-66/art-3/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-20261010T183826-001, 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