# 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-4181-83/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-4181-83/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-17 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十七条 suppl-4181-83/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-17 **第一項** 附則第十五条第三項の規定により協会の職員として採用された者であって、協会の成立の日の前日において厚生労働大臣又はその委任を受けた者から児童手当法（昭和四十六年法律第七十三号）第七条第一項（同法附則第六条第二項、第七条第五項又は第八条第四項において準用する場合を含む。以下この条において同じ。）の規定による認定を受けているものが、協会の成立の日において児童手当又は同法附則第六条第一項、第七条第一項若しくは第八条第一項の給付（以下この条において「特例給付等」という。）の支給要件に該当するときは、その者に対する児童手当又は特例給付等の支給に関しては、協会の成立の日において同法第七条第一項の規定による市町村長（特別区の区長を含む。以下同じ。）の認定があったものとみなす。この場合において、その認定があったものとみなされた児童手当又は特例給付等の支給は、同法第八条第二項（同法附則第六条第二項、第七条第五項又は第八条第四項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定にかかわらず、協会の成立の日の前日の属する月の翌月から始める。 suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1 If a person who was hired as an employee of JHIA pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions and who, on the day preceding the date of establishment of JHIA, has received certification from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or a person delegated by the Minister pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Child Allowance Act (Act No. 73 of 1971) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2), Article 7, paragraph (5) or Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) meets the requirements for payment of child allowance or the benefits under Article 6, paragraph (1), Article 7, paragraph (1) or Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (hereinafter referred to as "special benefit, etc." in this Article) on the date of establishment of JHIA, then with regard to payment of child allowance or special benefit, etc. to that person, certification by the mayor of a municipality (including the mayor of a special ward; the same applies hereinafter) pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to have been given on the date of establishment of JHIA. In this case, payment of the child allowance or special benefit, etc. for which certification is deemed to have been given starts, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) of that Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2), Article 7, paragraph (5) or Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act), from the month following the month that includes the day preceding the date of establishment of JHIA. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1: 附則第十五条第三項 → 健康保険法 附則第十五条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15, paragraph (3)), suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-15/par-3 - suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1: 児童手当法（昭和四十六年法律第七十三号）第七条第一項 → 児童手当法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-7/par-1 - suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1: この条 → 健康保険法 附則第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17), suppl-4181-83/art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-17 - suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1: 同法第八条第二項 → 児童手当法 第八条第二項 (Article 8, paragraph (2)), art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-8/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第五号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-5 - 健康保険法 附則第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-17/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第百三十三条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-133/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-20261010T183826-025, 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