# 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-4291-52/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-4291-52/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-1 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4291-52/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成三十年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2018; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第三条の規定並びに次条並びに附則第十五条、第十六条、第二十七条、第二十九条、第三十一条、第三十六条及び第四十七条から第四十九条までの規定　公布の日 suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-1 The provisions of Article 3, and the provisions of the following Article, and Articles 15, 16, 27, 29, 31, 36 and 47 through 49 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation machine translation, not official **二** 第一条中介護保険法第百五十二条及び第百五十三条の改正規定、同法第二百二条第一項、第二百三条第一項及び第二百十四条第三項の改正規定、同法附則第十一条及び第十二条の改正規定並びに同法附則第十三条を同法附則第十五条とし、同法附則第十二条の次に二条を加える改正規定、第二条中健康保険法等の一部を改正する法律附則第百三十条の二第一項の規定によりなおその効力を有するものとされた同法第二十六条の規定による改正前の介護保険法（以下「平成十八年旧介護保険法」という。）第百五十二条及び第百五十三条の改正規定、平成十八年旧介護保険法第二百二条第一項、第二百三条第一項及び第二百十四条第三項の改正規定、平成十八年旧介護保険法附則第九条及び第十条の改正規定並びに平成十八年旧介護保険法附則に二条を加える改正規定並びに第五条の規定（健康保険法第八十八条第一項の改正規定を除く。）並びに附則第三条から第六条まで、第十八条から第二十一条まで、第二十四条、第二十五条及び第四十四条の規定　平成二十九年七月一日 suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-2 The provisions of Article 1 amending Articles 152 and 153 of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act, the provisions amending Article 202, paragraph (1), Article 203, paragraph (1) and Article 214, paragraph (3) of that Act, the provisions amending Articles 11 and 12 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and the provisions revising Article 13 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act to be Article 15 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act and adding two articles after Article 12 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act; the provisions of Article 2 amending Articles 152 and 153 of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act as it stood prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 26 of the Act Partially Amending the Health Insurance Act, etc., that pre-amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 130-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Health Insurance Act, etc. (the pre-amendment Act being hereinafter referred to as the "2006 Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act"), the provisions amending Article 202, paragraph (1), Article 203, paragraph (1) and Article 214, paragraph (3) of the 2006 Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act, the provisions amending Articles 9 and 10 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2006 Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act, and the provisions adding two articles to the Supplementary Provisions of the 2006 Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act; the provisions of Article 5 (excluding the provisions amending Article 88, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act); and the provisions of Articles 3 through 6, Articles 18 through 21, Article 24, Article 25 and Article 44 of the Supplementary Provisions: July 1, 2017; machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-1: 次条 → 健康保険法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4291-52/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-2 - suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第四十七条から第四十九条まで → 健康保険法 附則第四十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 48), suppl-4291-52/art-48 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-48 - suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第四十七条から第四十九条まで → 健康保険法 附則第四十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 49), suppl-4291-52/art-49 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-49 - suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-2: 第二十四条 → 健康保険法 附則第二十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 24), suppl-4291-52/art-24 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-24 - suppl-4291-52/art-1/par-1/item-2: 第二十五条 → 健康保険法 附則第二十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 25), suppl-4291-52/art-25 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-25 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第二十四条第一項（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-24/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第四十八条第一項（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4291-52/art-48/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T193238-001, 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