# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5011-9/art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5011-9/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5011-9/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5011-9/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5011-9/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5011-9/art-15 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為及び附則第四条の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5011-9/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5011-9/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5011-9/art-15/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## 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-5011-9/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5011-9/art-1/par-1/item-5 - 健康保険法 附則第二条第一項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5011-9/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5011-9/art-2/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-20261010T183826-036, 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