# 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
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- Provision: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（国民健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-3521-86/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-3521-86/art-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3521-86/art-3
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### 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
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>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</sup>

**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。
<sup>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</sup>
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.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## 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

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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-20261017T183826-014, 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
