# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9)

- 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: 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) — address `suppl-4181-83/art-9`
- 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-9
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-9
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### 第九条
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-9</sup>

**第一項**  第二条の規定の施行の日の前日において傷病手当金の支給を受けていた者又は受けるべき者（支給事由が生じた際に任意継続被保険者であった者を除く。次項において同じ。）に係る同条の規定の施行の日前までの傷病手当金の額については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-1</sup>
With regard to the amount of injury and sickness allowance up to the day preceding the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 2 for a person who was receiving, or was to receive, injury and sickness allowance on the day preceding the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 2 (excluding a person who was an insured person with optional and continued coverage when the grounds for payment arose; the same applies in the following paragraph), the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  第二条の規定の施行の日の前日において傷病手当金の支給を受けていた者又は受けるべき者（支給事由が生じた後に任意継続被保険者となった者に限る。）に係る傷病手当金の支給については、同条の規定による改正後の健康保険法第九十九条第一項の規定にかかわらず、これらの者を同項に規定する被保険者とみなして同条の規定を適用する。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-2</sup>
With regard to payment of injury and sickness allowance to a person who was receiving, or was to receive, injury and sickness allowance on the day preceding the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 2 (limited to a person who became an insured person with optional and continued coverage after the grounds for payment arose), notwithstanding the provisions of Article 99, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2, the provisions of that Article apply by deeming those persons to be insured persons prescribed in that paragraph.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第三項**  第二条の規定の施行の日の前日において傷病手当金の支給を受けていた者又は受けるべき者（支給事由が生じた際に任意継続被保険者であった者に限る。）に係る傷病手当金の支給については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-3</sup>
With regard to payment of injury and sickness allowance to a person who was receiving, or was to receive, injury and sickness allowance on the day preceding the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 2 (limited to a person who was an insured person with optional and continued coverage when the grounds for payment arose), the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-1: 次項 → 健康保険法 附則第九条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9, paragraph (2)), suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-2
- suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-2: 健康保険法第九十九条第一項 → 健康保険法 第九十九条第一項 (Article 99, paragraph (1)), art-99/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-99/par-1
- suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-2: 同条 → 健康保険法 第九十九条 (Article 99), art-99 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-99 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-99

## 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三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-3
- 健康保険法 附則第九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-9/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

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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-20261010T183826-025, 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
