# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) — address `suppl-4141-102/art-6` - 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-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条 suppl-4141-102/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-6 **第一項** 第二条の規定の施行の日前に任意継続被保険者（第一条の規定による改正後の健康保険法第三条第四項に規定する任意継続被保険者をいう。以下この条において同じ。）の資格を取得した者のその任意継続被保険者の資格の喪失については、第二条の規定による改正後の同法第三十八条の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4141-102/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-6/par-1 With regard to the loss of eligibility as an insured person with optional and continued coverage of a person who acquired eligibility as an insured person with optional and continued coverage (meaning an insured person with optional and continued coverage prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 2, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 38 of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-102/art-6/par-1: 健康保険法第三条第四項 → 健康保険法 第三条第四項 (Article 3, paragraph (4)), art-3/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-3/par-4 - suppl-4141-102/art-6/par-1: この条 → 健康保険法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-4141-102/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-6 - suppl-4141-102/art-6/par-1: 同法第三十八条 → 健康保険法 第三十八条 (Article 38), art-38 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-38 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-1/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-6/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