# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

- 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-4061-56/art-7`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4061-56/art-7
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### 第七条
<sup>suppl-4061-56/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4061-56/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  施行日前に入院していた健康保険の被保険者又は被保険者であった者であって、被扶養者がいないものに係る施行日前までの傷病手当金及び出産手当金の額については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4061-56/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4061-56/art-7/par-1</sup>
With regard to the amounts of injury and sickness allowance and childbirth allowance for the period before the Effective Date for insured persons of health insurance or former insured persons who were hospitalized before the Effective Date and who have no dependents, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<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-20261010T183826-018, 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