# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3521-86` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3521-86 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3521-86 - 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. --- ## 附　則 昭和五二年一二月一六日法律第八六号 suppl-3521-86 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3521-86 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3521-86 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3521-86/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3521-86/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3521-86/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、昭和五十三年一月一日から施行する。ただし、第三条の規定及び附則第三条の規定は、同年四月一日から施行する。 suppl-3521-86/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3521-86/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3521-86/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on January 1, 1978; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 3 and the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on April 1 of the same year. machine translation, not official ### 第三条（国民健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the National Health Insurance Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3521-86/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3521-86/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3521-86/art-3 **第一項** 昭和五十三年四月一日前に行われた療養の給付及び同日前に行われた療養に係る療養費の支給に要する費用についての国民健康保険組合に対する国の補助については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3521-86/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3521-86/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3521-86/art-3/par-1 The provisions then in force continue to govern subsidies from the national government to National Health Insurance Societies for the expenses required for benefits for medical treatment provided before April 1, 1978 and for payment of medical expenses pertaining to medical treatment given before that date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3521-86/art-1/par-1: 附則第三条 → 国民健康保険法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-3521-86/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3521-86/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3521-86/art-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3521-86/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3521-86/art-1/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-20261017T183826-014, 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