# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19)

- 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: 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) — address `suppl-4271-31/art-19`
- 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-19
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-19
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### 第十九条
<sup>suppl-4271-31/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-19</sup>

**第一項**  第二号施行日前において、第五条の規定による改正前の健康保険法による傷病手当金又は出産手当金の支給を受けていた者又は受けるべき者に係る第二号施行日前までの分として支給される当該傷病手当金又は出産手当金の額については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4271-31/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-19/par-1</sup>
With regard to the amount of the injury and sickness allowance or childbirth allowance paid for the period before the item (ii) Effective Date to a person who, before the item (ii) Effective Date, was receiving or was to receive injury and sickness allowance or childbirth allowance under the Health Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 5, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites 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

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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
