# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（被保険者） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（被保険者） — (Insured Persons) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-19 **第一項** 組合員及び組合員の世帯に属する者は、当該組合が行う国民健康保険の被保険者とする。ただし、第六条各号（第十号を除く。）のいずれかに該当する者及び他の組合が行う国民健康保険の被保険者は、この限りでない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-19/par-1 A Society member and all persons belonging to said member's household shall be insured persons under the national health insurance program provided by said Society; provided, however, that this shall not apply to any person who falls under any of the items (excluding item (x)) of Article 6 or is an insured person under any national health insurance program provided by another Society. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、組合は、規約の定めるところにより、組合員の世帯に属する者を包括して被保険者としないことができる。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-19/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a Society may, pursuant to the provisions of its constitution, choose not to grant status as an insured person collectively to all persons belonging to the household of a member of such Society. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19/par-1: 第六条 → 国民健康保険法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-6 - art-19/par-1: 第十号 → 国民健康保険法 第六条第一項第十号 (Article 6, paragraph (1), item (x)), art-6/par-1/item-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-6/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-6/par-1/item-10 - art-19/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-19/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第十九条第二項（被保険者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-19/par-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17