# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-3331-192/art-4` - 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-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3331-192/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-3331-192/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3331-192/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3331-192/art-4 **第一項** 第十一条の規定は、前二条の規定により国民健康保険を行わない市町村には、適用しない。 suppl-3331-192/art-4/par-1 · 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 The provisions of Article 11 shall not apply to any Municipality which provides no national health insurance program pursuant to the provisions of the two preceding Articles. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-3331-192/art-4/par-1: 第十一条 → 国民健康保険法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-11 - suppl-3331-192/art-4/par-1: 前二条 → 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-4/par-1: 前二条 → 国民健康保険法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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