# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18) — address `suppl-4271-31/art-18` - 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-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条 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 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、第二号改正後健保法第七十条第三項の厚生労働省令を定めようとするときは、第二号施行日前においても、第二号改正後健保法第八十二条第一項の規定の例により、中央社会保険医療協議会に諮問することができる。 suppl-4271-31/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-18/par-1 When intending to establish the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in Article 70, paragraph (3) of the item (ii) Amended Health Insurance Act, the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare may, even before the item (ii) Effective Date, consult with the Central Social Insurance Medical Council in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 82, paragraph (1) of the item (ii) Amended Health Insurance Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-31/art-18/par-1: 第二号改正後健保法第七十条第三項 → 健康保険法 第七十条第三項 (Article 70, paragraph (3)), art-70/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-70/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-70/par-3 - suppl-4271-31/art-18/par-1: 第二号改正後健保法第八十二条第一項 → 健康保険法 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-82/par-1 ## 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一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 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 --- ## 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