# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第七十六条の三 (Article 76-3) - 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: 第七十六条の三 (Article 76-3)（保険料の徴収の方法） — address `art-76-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十六条の三（保険料の徴収の方法） — (Method of Collection of Insurance Premiums) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-76-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-3 **第一項** 市町村による第七十六条第一項の保険料の徴収については、特別徴収（市町村が老齢等年金給付を受ける被保険者である世帯主（政令で定めるものを除く。）から老齢等年金給付の支払をする者に保険料を徴収させ、かつ、その徴収すべき保険料を納入させることをいう。以下同じ。）の方法による場合を除くほか、普通徴収（市町村が世帯主に対し、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百三十一条の規定により納入の通知をすることによつて保険料を徴収することをいう。以下同じ。）の方法によらなければならない。 art-76-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-3/par-1 Collection of the insurance premiums set forth in Article 76, paragraph (1) by a Municipality must be by means of ordinary collection (meaning that the Municipality collects the insurance premiums by giving payment advice to the Householder pursuant to the provisions of Article 231 of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947); hereinafter the same shall apply), except in cases where a means of special collection (meaning that the Municipality has a person who pays the Old Age, etc. Pension Benefit collect the insurance premiums from a Householder who is an insured person receiving said Old Age, etc. Pension Benefit (excluding those prescribed by Cabinet Order) and pay to the Municipality the insurance premiums to be collected; hereinafter the same shall apply) is used. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の老齢等年金給付は、国民年金法（昭和三十四年法律第百四十一号）による老齢基礎年金その他の同法又は厚生年金保険法（昭和二十九年法律第百十五号）による老齢、障害又は死亡を支給事由とする年金たる給付であつて政令で定めるもの及びこれらの年金たる給付に類する老齢若しくは退職、障害又は死亡を支給事由とする年金たる給付であつて政令で定めるものをいう。 art-76-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-3/par-2 The Old Age, etc. Pension Benefit as referred to in the preceding paragraph means the Old Age Basic Pension under the National Pension Act (Act No. 141 of 1959) and other benefits which are provided in the form of a pension due to old age, disability or death under the same Act or the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 115 of 1954) and which are prescribed by Cabinet Order as well as benefits which are similar to these benefits provided in the form of a pension and are provided in the form of a pension due to old age, retirement, disability or death and which are prescribed by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-76-3/par-1: 第七十六条第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第七十六条第一項 (Article 76, paragraph (1)), art-76/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76/par-1 - art-76-3/par-1: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百三十一条 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百三十一条 (Article 231), art-231 — not held in this collection - art-76-3/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第七十六条の三第一項 (Article 76-3, paragraph (1)), art-76-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-3/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第七十六条の三第二項（保険料の徴収の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-3/par-2 - 国民健康保険法 第七十六条の四第一項（介護保険法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-4/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 第八十一条第一項（条例又は規約への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-81/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-20261017T183826-006, 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