# 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-4181-83/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-4181-83/art-6
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-6
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### 第六条
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  第一条の規定による改正後の健康保険法第百条及び第百三十六条の規定は、死亡の日が施行日以後である被保険者及び日雇特例被保険者並びにこれらの者であった者について適用し、死亡の日が施行日前である被保険者及び日雇特例被保険者並びにこれらの者であった者の第一条の規定による改正前の健康保険法の埋葬料の支給については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-6/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Articles 100 and 136 of the Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 apply to insured persons and specially-insured day laborers whose date of death is on or after the Effective Date and persons who were such persons, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the payment of burial charges under the Health Insurance Act before the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 to insured persons and specially-insured day laborers whose date of death is before the Effective Date and persons who were such persons.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4181-83/art-6/par-1: 健康保険法第百条 → 健康保険法 第百条 (Article 100), art-100 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-100 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-100
- suppl-4181-83/art-6/par-1: 第百三十六条 → 健康保険法 第百三十六条 (Article 136), art-136 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-136 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-136

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 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

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## 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
