# 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-4181-83/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-4181-83/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4181-83/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-4 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、第一条の規定による改正後の健康保険法第六十三条第二項第三号及び第四号の定め（同項第三号の定めのうち高度の医療技術に係るものを除く。）、同法第八十五条の二第二項の基準、同法第八十六条第二項第一号の定め並びに同法第八十五条の二第五項及び第八十六条第四項において準用する同法第七十条第一項及び第七十二条第一項の厚生労働省令を定めようとするときは、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）前においても中央社会保険医療協議会に諮問することができる。 suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare intends to specify the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (2), items (iii) and (iv) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (excluding those of the provisions of item (iii) of that paragraph that pertain to advanced medical care techniques), the standards under Article 85-2, paragraph (2) of that Act, the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (2), item (i) of that Act, and the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 70, paragraph (1) and Article 72, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 85-2, paragraph (5) and Article 86, paragraph (4) of that Act, the Minister may consult with the Central Social Insurance Medical Council even before the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1: 健康保険法第六十三条第二項第三号 → 健康保険法 第六十三条第二項第三号 (Article 63, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-63/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-63/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-63/par-2/item-3 - suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1: 第四号 → 健康保険法 第六十三条第二項第五号 (Article 63, paragraph (2), item (v)), art-63/par-2/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-63/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-63/par-2/item-5 - suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1: 同法第八十五条の二第二項 → 健康保険法 第八十五条の二第二項 (Article 85-2, paragraph (2)), art-85-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-85-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-85-2/par-2 - suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1: 同法第八十六条第二項第一号 → 健康保険法 第八十六条第二項第一号 (Article 86, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-86/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-86/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-86/par-2/item-1 - suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1: 同法第八十五条の二第五項 → 健康保険法 第八十五条の二第五項 (Article 85-2, paragraph (5)), art-85-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-85-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-85-2/par-5 - suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1: 第八十六条第四項 → 健康保険法 第八十六条第四項 (Article 86, paragraph (4)), art-86/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-86/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-86/par-4 - suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1: 同法第七十条第一項 → 健康保険法 第七十条第一項 (Article 70, paragraph (1)), art-70/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-70/par-1 - suppl-4181-83/art-4/par-1: 第七十二条第一項 → 健康保険法 第七十二条第一項 (Article 72, paragraph (1)), art-72/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-72/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261010T183826-024, 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