# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22) - 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: 第二十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22) — address `suppl-4181-83/art-22` - 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-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条 suppl-4181-83/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22 **第一項** 第四条の規定の施行の日前にその使用される事業所を退職し、同日前に平成二十年十月改正前健保法第三条第四項の規定による申出をしていない者が、第四条の規定の施行の日以後その退職の日から起算して二十日を経過する日（正当な理由があると協会が認めた場合には、その認めた日。次項において同じ。）までの間に当該申出を協会に行ったときは、その者は退職の日の翌日から同条の規定の施行の日の前日までの間は旧政管健保の任意継続被保険者であった者とする。 suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-1 In the case where a person who retired from the place of business where the person was employed before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, and who had not made the application under Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Health Insurance Act Before the October 2008 Amendment before that date, makes that application to JHIA on or after the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 by the day on which 20 days have elapsed counting from the day of retirement (if JHIA finds that there are justifiable grounds, the day on which it so finds; the same applies in the following paragraph), that person is to be treated as a person who was an insured person with optional and continued coverage under former government-managed health insurance during the period from the day following the day of retirement to the day before the date of enforcement of the provisions of that Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第四条の規定の施行の日前にその使用される事業所を退職し、同日の前日に平成二十年十月改正前健保法第三条第四項の規定による申出を社会保険庁長官に行った者（当該申出を退職の日から起算して二十日を経過する日までの間に行った者に限る。）は、退職の日の翌日から第四条の規定の施行の日の前日までの間は旧政管健保の任意継続被保険者であった者とする。 suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-2 A person who retired from the place of business where the person was employed before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, and who made the application under Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Health Insurance Act Before the October 2008 Amendment to the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency on the day before that date (limited to a person who made that application by the day on which 20 days have elapsed counting from the day of retirement), is to be treated as a person who was an insured person with optional and continued coverage under former government-managed health insurance during the period from the day following the day of retirement to the day before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第四条の規定の施行の日の前日において旧政管健保の任意継続被保険者である者（前二項の規定により任意継続被保険者であった者とされた者を含み、同日において平成二十年十月改正前健保法第三十八条第一号から第三号までのいずれかに該当した者を除く。）は、第四条の規定の施行の日において協会が管掌する健康保険の任意継続被保険者になるものとする。この場合において、その者の旧政管健保の当該任意継続被保険者であった期間は、協会が管掌する健康保険の任意継続被保険者であった期間とみなす。 suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-3 A person who is an insured person with optional and continued coverage under former government-managed health insurance on the day before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 (including a person treated as having been an insured person with optional and continued coverage pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs, but excluding a person who, on that day, fell under any of Article 38, items (i) through (iii) of the Health Insurance Act Before the October 2008 Amendment) is to become, on the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, an insured person with optional and continued coverage under the health insurance administered by JHIA. In this case, the period during which that person was an insured person with optional and continued coverage under former government-managed health insurance is deemed to be a period during which the person was an insured person with optional and continued coverage under the health insurance administered by JHIA. machine translation, not official **第四項** 第四条の規定の施行の日の前日において旧政管健保の被保険者（任意継続被保険者を除く。）であった者であって、同日にその使用される事業所を退職し、かつ、同日に平成二十年十月改正前健保法第三条第四項の規定による申出を社会保険庁長官に行ったものは、第四条の規定の施行の日において協会が管掌する健康保険の任意継続被保険者になるものとする。 suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-4 A person who was an insured person (excluding an insured person with optional and continued coverage) under former government-managed health insurance on the day before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, and who retired from the place of business where the person was employed on that day and, on that day, made the application under Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Health Insurance Act Before the October 2008 Amendment to the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, is to become, on the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, an insured person with optional and continued coverage under the health insurance administered by JHIA. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-1: 次項 → 健康保険法 附則第二十二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22, paragraph (2)), suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-2 - suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-3: 前二項 → 健康保険法 附則第二十二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22, paragraph (1)), suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-1 - suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-3: 前二項 → 健康保険法 附則第二十二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22, paragraph (2)), suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-2 ## Cited by 4 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 附則第二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第二十二条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-22/par-3 - 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-20261010T183826-026, 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