# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4141-102/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4141-102/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-4 **第一項** 第一条の規定による改正後の健康保険法第百十四条及び第百四十四条の規定は、出産の日がこの法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）以後である被保険者について適用し、出産の日が施行日前である被保険者の第一条の規定による改正前の健康保険法の配偶者出産育児一時金については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4141-102/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 114 and Article 144 of the Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 apply to insured persons whose date of childbirth is on or after the date of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), and with regard to the lump-sum allowance for spouse's childbirth and childcare under the Health Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 for insured persons whose date of childbirth is before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-102/art-4/par-1: 健康保険法第百十四条 → 健康保険法 第百十四条 (Article 114), art-114 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-114 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-114 - suppl-4141-102/art-4/par-1: 第百四十四条 → 健康保険法 第百四十四条 (Article 144), art-144 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-144 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-144 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-5/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第三十六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-36/par-1 --- ## 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-20261010T183826-022, 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