# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)

- 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（延滞金に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3371-67/art-20`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3371-67/art-20
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3371-67/art-20
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### 第二十条（延滞金に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Delinquent Charges
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3371-67/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3371-67/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3371-67/art-20</sup>

**第一項**  第三十三条、第三十七条及び第三十八条の規定中延滞金に関する部分並びに第四十条の規定は、この法律の施行後に徴収する延滞金について適用する。ただし、当該延滞金の全部又は一部でこの法律の施行前の期間に対応するものについては、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3371-67/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3371-67/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3371-67/art-20/par-1</sup>
The parts of the provisions of Articles 33, 37 and 38 concerning delinquent charges and the provisions of Article 40 apply to delinquent charges collected after this Act comes into effect. However, the provisions then in force continue to govern all or part of those delinquent charges that corresponds to the period before this Act comes into effect.
<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-20261010T183826-012, 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