# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第八十一条 (Article 81)

- 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: 第八十一条 (Article 81)（条例又は規約への委任） — address `art-81`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-81
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-81
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### 第八十一条（条例又は規約への委任） — (Delegation to Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance or Society's Constitution)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-81</sup>

**第一項**  第七十六条から前条までに規定するもののほか、賦課額、保険料率、納期、減額賦課その他保険料の賦課及び徴収等に関する事項は、政令で定める基準に従つて条例又は規約で定める。
<sup>art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-81/par-1</sup>
In addition to what is provided for in Article 76 through the preceding Article, the amount of assessment, insurance premium rates, due dates, reduced assessment and other matters concerning the assessment, collection, etc. of insurance premiums shall be prescribed by Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance or the Society's constitution in accordance with the standards specified by Cabinet Order.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-81/par-1: 第七十六条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 第七十六条 (Article 76), art-76 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76
- art-81/par-1: 第七十六条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 第七十六条の二 (Article 76-2), art-76-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-2
- art-81/par-1: 第七十六条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 第七十六条の三 (Article 76-3), art-76-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-3
- art-81/par-1: 第七十六条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 第七十六条の四 (Article 76-4), art-76-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-4
- art-81/par-1: 第七十六条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 第七十七条 (Article 77), art-77 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-77
- art-81/par-1: 第七十六条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 第七十八条 (Article 78), art-78 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-78
- art-81/par-1: 第七十六条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 第七十九条 (Article 79), art-79 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-79
- art-81/par-1: 第七十六条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 第七十九条の二 (Article 79-2), art-79-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-79-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-79-2
- art-81/par-1: 第七十六条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 第八十条 (Article 80), art-80 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-80 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-80
- art-81/par-1: 第七十六条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 第八十条の二 (Article 80-2), art-80-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-80-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-80-2

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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-20261017T183826-006, 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
