# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) — address `suppl-4061-56/art-19` - 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-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条 suppl-4061-56/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-19 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に第三条の規定による改正前の国民健康保険法（以下「旧国保法」という。）第三十六条第三項に規定する国民健康保険医若しくは国民健康保険薬剤師であって健康保険法第四十三条ノ二に規定する保険医（以下この条において単に「保険医」という。）若しくは保険薬剤師（以下この条において単に「保険薬剤師」という。）でないもの又は旧国保法第三十六条第四項に規定する療養取扱機関であって健康保険法第四十三条第三項第一号に規定する保険医療機関（以下この条において単に「保険医療機関」という。）若しくは保険薬局（以下この条において単に「保険薬局」という。）でないものについては、平成七年三月三十一日までの間、国民健康保険の保険者及び被保険者に対する関係においてのみ、保険医、保険薬剤師、保険医療機関又は保険薬局たるものとみなす。 suppl-4061-56/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-19/par-1 A national health insurance physician or national health insurance pharmacist prescribed in Article 36, paragraph (3) of the National Health Insurance Act before the amendment by the provisions of Article 3 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former National Health Insurance Act") who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is not a health insurance-covered physician prescribed in Article 43-2 of the Health Insurance Act (hereinafter in this Article simply referred to as "health insurance-covered physician") or a health insurance-covered pharmacist (hereinafter in this Article simply referred to as "health insurance-covered pharmacist"), or an institution handling medical treatment prescribed in Article 36, paragraph (4) of the Former National Health Insurance Act that, at that time, is not a Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Health Insurance Act (hereinafter in this Article simply referred to as "Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution") or a health insurance-covered pharmacy (hereinafter in this Article simply referred to as "health insurance-covered pharmacy"), is deemed, until March 31, 1995 and only in relation to insurers of national health insurance and insured persons, to be a health insurance-covered physician, health insurance-covered pharmacist, Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution or health insurance-covered pharmacy. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4061-56/art-19/par-1: この条 → 国民健康保険法 附則第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19), suppl-4061-56/art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-19 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 附則第十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-19/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-20261017T183826-017, 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