# 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-4231-73/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-4231-73/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4231-73/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
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suppl-4231-73/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4231-73/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4231-73/art-1
**第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して三年を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。ただし、第一条並びに次条並びに附則第三条第一項（厚生労働大臣が定めることに係る部分に限る。）、第四条及び第十四条の規定は、公布の日から施行する。
suppl-4231-73/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4231-73/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4231-73/art-1/par-1
This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding three years from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 1, the following Article, Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the part concerning what is specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare), and Article 4 and Article 14 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on the date of promulgation.
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## Cites
- suppl-4231-73/art-1/par-1: 第十四条 → 健康保険法 附則第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14), suppl-4231-73/art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4231-73/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4231-73/art-14
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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-20261010T183826-030, 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