# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)

- 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) — address `suppl-4271-31/art-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-16
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### 第十六条
<sup>suppl-4271-31/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-16</sup>

**第一項**  附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の日（以下「第二号施行日」という。）前に健康保険の被保険者（日雇特例被保険者を除く。以下この項において同じ。）の資格を取得して、第二号施行日まで引き続きその資格を有する者（平成二十八年四月から標準報酬月額を改定されるべき者を除く。）のうち、同年三月の標準報酬月額が百二十一万円であるもの（当該標準報酬月額の基礎となった報酬月額が百二十三万五千円未満である者を除く。）の標準報酬月額は、当該標準報酬月額の基礎となった報酬月額を第五条の規定による改正後の健康保険法（次条及び附則第十八条において「第二号改正後健保法」という。）第四十条第一項の規定による標準報酬月額の基礎となる報酬月額とみなして、保険者等（健康保険法第三十九条第一項に規定する保険者等をいう。）が改定する。
<sup>suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1</sup>
The standard monthly remuneration amount of those, among persons who acquired eligibility as an insured person covered by health insurance (excluding specially-insured day laborers; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) before the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "item (ii) Effective Date") and have continuously held that eligibility until the item (ii) Effective Date (excluding persons whose standard monthly remuneration amount is to be revised from April 2016), whose standard monthly remuneration amount for March of that year is 1,210,000 yen (excluding persons whose monthly remuneration amount that was the basis of that standard monthly remuneration amount is less than 1,235,000 yen), is revised by the insurer, etc. (meaning the insurer, etc. prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act), deeming the monthly remuneration amount that was the basis of that standard monthly remuneration amount to be the monthly remuneration amount that is the basis of the standard monthly remuneration amount under the provisions of Article 40, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 5 (referred to as the "item (ii) Amended Health Insurance Act" in the following Article and Article 18 of the Supplementary Provisions).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の規定により改定された標準報酬月額は、平成二十八年四月から同年八月までの各月の標準報酬月額とする。
<sup>suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-2</sup>
The standard monthly remuneration amount revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the standard monthly remuneration amount of each month from April 2016 until August of that year.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-2
- suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1: この項 → 健康保険法 附則第十六条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16, paragraph (1)), suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1
- suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1: 次条 → 健康保険法 附則第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17), suppl-4271-31/art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-17
- suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1: 附則第十八条 → 健康保険法 附則第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18), suppl-4271-31/art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-18
- suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1: 第四十条第一項 → 健康保険法 第四十条第一項 (Article 40, paragraph (1)), art-40/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-40/par-1
- suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1: 健康保険法第三十九条第一項 → 健康保険法 第三十九条第一項 (Article 39, paragraph (1)), art-39/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-39/par-1
- suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 附則第十六条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16, paragraph (1)), suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1

## 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二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-2
- 健康保険法 附則第十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-1
- 健康保険法 附則第十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-16/par-2

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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-20261010T183826-035, 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
