# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第七条 (Article 7)

- 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（資格取得の時期） — address `art-7`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-7
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### 第七条（資格取得の時期） — (Time of Acquisition of Eligibility)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  都道府県等が行う国民健康保険の被保険者は、都道府県の区域内に住所を有するに至つた日又は前条各号のいずれにも該当しなくなつた日から、その資格を取得する。
<sup>art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-7/par-1</sup>
An insured person under the national health insurance program provided by prefectures, etc. shall become eligible as such on the day on which said person acquires domicile within the area of the prefecture or on the first day on which said person no longer falls under any of the items of the preceding Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-7/par-1: 前条 → 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

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## 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-20261017T183826-001, 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