# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4191-110/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4191-110/art-1 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4191-110/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4191-110/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成二十年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、それぞれ当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2008; provided, however, that the provisions listed in the following items come into effect as of the date specified in the relevant item: machine translation, not official **一** 第一条、第六条、第十三条、第十六条及び第十九条並びに附則第二十三条、第二十五条、第二十七条及び第二十八条の規定　公布の日 suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provisions of Article 1, Article 6, Article 13, Article 16 and Article 19, and Article 23, Article 25, Article 27 and Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation; machine translation, not official **二及び三** 略 suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-2-to-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-2-to-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-2-to-3 Omitted; machine translation, not official **四** 第八条、第十八条及び第二十条から第二十三条まで並びに附則第七条から第九条まで、第十三条、第十六条及び第二十四条の規定　平成二十一年四月一日 suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-4 the provisions of Article 8, Article 18, and Article 20 to Article 23, and Article 7 to Article 9, Article 13, Article 16 and Article 24 of the Supplementary Provisions: April 1, 2009. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第二十七条 → 健康保険法 附則第二十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 27), suppl-4191-110/art-27 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4191-110/art-27 - suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第二十八条 → 健康保険法 附則第二十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28), suppl-4191-110/art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4191-110/art-28 - suppl-4191-110/art-1/par-1/item-4: 附則第七条から第九条まで → 健康保険法 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-4191-110/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4191-110/art-7 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第二十七条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4191-110/art-27/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-20261010T183826-028, 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