# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-4181-83/art-5` - 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-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 suppl-4181-83/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-5 **第一項** 施行日において現に第一条の規定による改正前の健康保険法第八十六条第一項第一号の規定により特定承認保険医療機関の承認を受けている病院又は診療所は、施行日に、健康保険法第六十三条第三項第一号の指定を受けたものとみなす。ただし、当該開設者が施行日の前日までに、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより別段の申出をしたときは、この限りでない。 suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-1 A hospital or clinic that, on the Effective Date, is actually approved as a specially approved medical institution providing services covered by health insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Health Insurance Act before the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 is deemed to have received the designation referred to in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Health Insurance Act on the Effective Date; provided, however, that this does not apply if its establisher has notified otherwise, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, by the day before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項本文の規定により指定を受けたものとみなされた病院又は診療所に係る当該指定の効力を有する期間は、健康保険法第六十八条第一項の規定にかかわらず、その病院又は診療所について第一条の規定による改正前の健康保険法第八十六条第十二項において準用する同法第六十八条第一項の規定により承認の効力を有するとされた期間の施行日における残存期間と同一の期間とする。 suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-2 With regard to a hospital or clinic deemed to have received designation pursuant to the provisions of the main clause of the preceding paragraph, notwithstanding Article 68, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act, the period during which the designation is effective is to be the same as the period remaining on the Effective Date of the period during which the approval was to be effective for that hospital or clinic pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 86, paragraph (12) of the Health Insurance Act before the amendment by the provisions of Article 1. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-1: 健康保険法第六十三条第三項第一号 → 健康保険法 第六十三条第三項第一号 (Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-63/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-63/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-63/par-3/item-1 - suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 附則第五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (1)), suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-1 - suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-2: 健康保険法第六十八条第一項 → 健康保険法 第六十八条第一項 (Article 68, paragraph (1)), art-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-68/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-2 - 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