# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3381-62` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3381-62 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3381-62 - 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. --- ## 附　則 昭和三八年三月三一日法律第六二号 suppl-3381-62 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3381-62 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3381-62 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3381-62/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3381-62/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3381-62/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、昭和三十八年四月一日から施行する。 suppl-3381-62/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3381-62/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3381-62/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 1963. machine translation, not official ### 第三条（健康保険の療養の給付等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Benefits for Medical Treatment, etc. under Health Insurance caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3381-62/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3381-62/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3381-62/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に健康保険法第二十条の規定による被保険者である者は、この法律の施行の日から一箇月以内に保険者に申し出て、この法律による改正前の健康保険法第二十一条第一号に規定する期間を経過した時に被保険者の資格を喪失することができる。 suppl-3381-62/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3381-62/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3381-62/art-3/par-1 A person who is an insured person pursuant to the provisions of Article 20 of the Health Insurance Act at the time this Act comes into effect may, by making a request to the insurer within one month from the day this Act comes into effect, lose eligibility as an insured person at the time the period prescribed in Article 21, item (i) of the Health Insurance Act prior to its amendment by this Act has elapsed. machine translation, not official **第二項** 健康保険の被保険者であつた者又は被扶養者であつた者の疾病又は負傷及びこれによつて発した疾病（以下「傷病」という。）であつて、療養の給付又は家族療養費の支給開始後この法律の施行前に三年を経過したものに関するこれらの給付の支給については、健康保険法第五十五条の改正規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3381-62/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3381-62/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3381-62/art-3/par-2 With regard to the payment of benefits for medical treatment or dependent's medical expenses for the sickness or injury, and the sickness arising therefrom (hereinafter referred to as "injury or illness"), of a person who was an insured person of health insurance or a person who was a dependent, for which three years have elapsed, before this Act comes into effect, after the start of the benefits for medical treatment or the payment of dependent's medical expenses, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions amending Article 55 of the Health Insurance Act. machine translation, not official **第三項** この法律の施行前に同一の傷病に関し療養の給付又は家族療養費の支給開始後三年を経過した健康保険の被保険者又は被扶養者の当該期間経過後この法律の施行までの期間に係る当該傷病及びこれによつて発した疾病に関する療養の給付又は家族療養費の支給については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3381-62/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3381-62/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3381-62/art-3/par-3 With regard to benefits for medical treatment or the payment of dependent's medical expenses for the injury or illness concerned and sickness arising therefrom, for the period from the elapse of the relevant period until this Act comes into effect, for an insured person or dependent of health insurance for whom three years have elapsed after the start of benefits for medical treatment or the payment of dependent's medical expenses for the same injury or illness before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3381-62/art-3/par-1: 健康保険法第二十条 → 健康保険法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-20 --- ## 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-20261010T183826-013, 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