# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第四十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 45)

- 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: 第四十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 45)（健康保険の短時間労働者への適用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4241-62/art-45`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-45
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4241-62/art-45
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### 第四十五条（健康保険の短時間労働者への適用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Health Insurance to Part-Time Workers
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4241-62/art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4241-62/art-45</sup>

**第一項**  第五号施行日前に健康保険の被保険者の資格を取得して、第五号施行日まで引き続き被保険者の資格を有する者については、健康保険法第三条第一項（同項第九号に係る部分に限る。）の規定は、第五号施行日以降引き続き第五号施行日において使用されていた事業所に使用されている間は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4241-62/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4241-62/art-45/par-1</sup>
With regard to a person who acquired eligibility as an insured person covered by health insurance before the Item (v) Effective Date and continues to hold eligibility as an insured person until the Item (v) Effective Date, the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act (limited to the part pertaining to item (ix) of that paragraph) do not apply for as long as the person, on or after the Item (v) Effective Date, continues to be employed at the place of business at which the person was employed on the Item (v) Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4241-62/art-45/par-1: 健康保険法第三条第一項 → 健康保険法 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-3/par-1
- suppl-4241-62/art-45/par-1: 同項第九号 → 健康保険法 第三条第一項第九号 (Article 3, paragraph (1), item (ix)), art-3/par-1/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-3/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-3/par-1/item-9

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第五号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-5
- 健康保険法 附則第四十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4241-62/art-46/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-20261010T183826-031, 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
