# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-3331-192/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3331-192/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3331-192/art-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. 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-3331-192/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3331-192/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3331-192/art-3 **第一項** 前条の市町村で、特別の事情があるものは、第三条第一項及び前条の規定にかかわらず、昭和三十六年四月一日以後も当分の間、厚生大臣の承認を受けて、国民健康保険を行わないことができる。 suppl-3331-192/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3331-192/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3331-192/art-3/par-1 Any Municipality as referred to in the preceding Article may, if in special circumstances and upon the approval of the Minister of Health and Welfare, choose to remain with no national health insurance program after April 1, 1961 until otherwise provided for in law, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) and the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-3331-192/art-3/par-1: 前条 → 国民健康保険法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-3331-192/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3331-192/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3331-192/art-2 - suppl-3331-192/art-3/par-1: 第三条第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3331-192/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3331-192/art-4/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3331-192/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3331-192/art-5/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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17