# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第百十六条 (Article 116) - Law: 国民健康保険法 (National Health Insurance Act), 昭和三十三年法律第百九十二号 - English title "National 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: 第百十六条 (Article 116)（修学中の被保険者の特例） — address `art-116` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-116 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116 - 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. --- ### 第百十六条（修学中の被保険者の特例） — (Special Provisions for Insured Persons Attending School) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116 **第一項** 修学のため一の市町村の区域内に住所を有する被保険者であつて、修学していないとすれば他の市町村の区域内に住所を有する他人と同一の世帯に属するものと認められるものは、この法律の適用については、当該他の市町村の区域内に住所を有するものとみなし、かつ、当該世帯に属するものとみなす。 art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116/par-1 An insured person who is domiciled within the area of one Municipality in order to attend school and who would, if said person did not so attend school, be found to belong to the same household as another person who is domiciled within the area of another Municipality shall be deemed, for the purpose of the application of this Act, to be domiciled within the area of the other Municipality and to belong to said household. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 附則第十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4271-31/art-13/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/333AC0000000192/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — National Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-health-insurance-act-20261017T183826-010, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17