# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-4121-140/art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4121-140/art-8 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八条 suppl-4121-140/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4121-140/art-8 **第一項** 健康保険の保険者は、健康保険法第百六十条第十一項及び附則第十三条第二項の規定にかかわらず、政令で定めるところにより、平成十二年度から平成十四年度までの各年度における当該保険者の介護保険料額の総額又は特別介護保険料額の総額の合計額と当該保険者が介護保険法の規定により納付すべき納付金（日雇特例被保険者に係るものを除く。）の額（政府の管掌する健康保険においては、その額から健康保険法第百五十三条第二項の規定による国庫補助額を控除した額）の合計額とが等しくなるように介護保険料率又は特別介護保険料額の算定方法を定めることができる。 suppl-4121-140/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4121-140/art-8/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 160, paragraph (11) of the Health Insurance Act and Article 13, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, an insurer of health insurance may, as provided by Cabinet Order, specify the method of calculating the long-term care insurance premium rate or the amount of special long-term care insurance premiums so that the sum, over each fiscal year from fiscal year 2000 through fiscal year 2002, of the total amount of long-term care insurance premium or the total amount of special long-term care insurance premiums of that insurer equals the sum of the amounts of payments (excluding those pertaining to specially-insured day laborers) that the insurer is to pay under the provisions of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (for health insurance administered by the government, the amount obtained by deducting the national subsidy amount under the provisions of Article 153, paragraph (2) of the Health Insurance Act from that amount). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4121-140/art-8/par-1: 健康保険法第百六十条第十一項 → 健康保険法 第百六十条第十一項 (Article 160, paragraph (11)), art-160/par-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-160/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160/par-11 --- ## 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-20261010T183826-021, 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