# 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)（健康保険法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5051-48/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-5051-48/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5051-48/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（健康保険法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Health Insurance Act, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5051-48/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5051-48/art-15 **第一項** 保険者（健康保険法第四条に規定する保険者をいう。）は、第五条の規定による改正後の同法第五十一条の三第一項前段に規定する場合において、必要があると認めるときは、当分の間、同項の規定にかかわらず、職権で、被保険者に対し、同項後段の厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、同項の厚生労働省令で定める事項を記載した書面を交付し、又は当該事項を同項に規定する電磁的方法により提供することができる。 suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1 An insurer (meaning the insurer prescribed in Article 4 of the Health Insurance Act) may, in the case prescribed in the first sentence of Article 51-3, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 5, if it finds it necessary, for the time being, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, ex officio, deliver to an insured person, as provided by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph, a document stating the matters specified by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in that paragraph, or provide those matters by the electronic or magnetic means prescribed in that paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1: 健康保険法第四条 → 健康保険法 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-4 - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1: 同法第五十一条の三第一項 → 健康保険法 第五十一条の三第一項 (Article 51-3, paragraph (1)), art-51-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-3/par-1 ## 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-5051-48/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5051-48/art-1/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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-20261010T183826-040, translated 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261012T191218-001, translated 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10