# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)

- 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（国民健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4061-56/art-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-16
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-16
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### 第十六条（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-4061-56/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-16</sup>

**第一項**  施行日前に行われた食事の提供、看護又は移送に係る国民健康保険法の規定による給付については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4061-56/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-16/par-1</sup>
With regard to benefits under the provisions of the National Health Insurance Act pertaining to the provision of meals, nursing or transportation conducted before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261017T183826-017, 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