# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)

- 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
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- Provision: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（一部負担金に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3321-42/art-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3321-42/art-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3321-42/art-5
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### 第五条（一部負担金に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Co-Payments
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3321-42/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3321-42/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3321-42/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  昭和三十二年五月一日から同年六月三十日までの間において新法第四十三条第三項各号に掲げる病院又は診療所について療養の給付を受ける被保険者又は被保険者であつた者は、その給付を受ける際、この法律による改正前の健康保険法（以下「旧法」という。）第四十三条ノ二第二項の規定の例により、当該病院又は診療所に一部負担金を支払わなければならない。この場合において、同条同項ただし書中「組合ノ指定スル者」とあるのは、「第四十三条第三項第二号ニ掲グル病院又ハ診療所」と読み替えるものとする。
<sup>suppl-3321-42/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3321-42/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3321-42/art-5/par-1</sup>
An insured person or a person who was an insured person who receives benefits for medical treatment at a hospital or clinic listed in the items of Article 43, paragraph (3) of the New Act during the period from May 1 to June 30, 1957 must, upon receiving the benefits, pay a co-payment to that hospital or clinic in accordance with the provisions of Article 43-2, paragraph (2) of the Health Insurance Act prior to its amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act"). In this case, the phrase "a person designated by the society" in the proviso to paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a hospital or clinic listed in Article 43, paragraph (3), item (ii)".
<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-20261010T183826-011, 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
