# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17)

- 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: 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17) — address `suppl-4101-109/art-17`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-17
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-17
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### 第十七条
<sup>suppl-4101-109/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-17</sup>

**第一項**  附則第一条第一号に掲げる規定の施行の日前に旧健保法第四十三条ノ十三の規定により登録を取り消された医師若しくは歯科医師又は薬剤師に対する当該取消しに係る健康保険法第七十一条第二項の規定の適用については、同項中「五年」とあるのは、「二年」とする。
<sup>suppl-4101-109/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-17/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 71, paragraph (2) of the Health Insurance Act, pertaining to the rescission, to a physician, dentist or pharmacist whose registration was rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 43-13 of the Former Health Insurance Act before the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "five years" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "two years".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4101-109/art-17/par-1: 附則第一条第一号 → 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1
- suppl-4101-109/art-17/par-1: 健康保険法第七十一条第二項 → 健康保険法 第七十一条第二項 (Article 71, paragraph (2)), art-71/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-71/par-2

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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-20261010T183826-019, 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