# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)

- 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日等） — address `suppl-4091-94/art-1`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4091-94/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4091-94/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日等） — Effective Date, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4091-94/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4091-94/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4091-94/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、平成九年九月一日から施行する。ただし、第五条中国民健康保険法附則第十二項を削る改正規定、同法附則第十三項の改正規定及び同項を同法附則第十二項とする改正規定は、公布の日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4091-94/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4091-94/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4091-94/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on September 1, 1997; provided, however, that the amending provisions that delete paragraph (12) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Health Insurance Act in Article 5, the amending provisions of paragraph (13) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and the amending provisions that make that paragraph paragraph (12) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act come into effect as of the date of promulgation.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  この法律による改正後の国民健康保険法附則第十二項の規定は、平成九年四月一日から適用する。
<sup>suppl-4091-94/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4091-94/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4091-94/art-1/par-2</sup>
The provisions of paragraph (12) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Health Insurance Act as amended by this Act apply as of April 1, 1997.
<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-20261017T183826-018, 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