# 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-4101-54` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ## 附　則 平成一〇年五月八日法律第五四号 suppl-4101-54 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4101-54/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成十二年四月一日から施行する。ただし、第一条中地方自治法別表第一から別表第四までの改正規定（別表第一中第八号の二を削り、第八号の三を第八号の二とし、第八号の四及び第九号の三を削り、第九号の四を第九号の三とし、第九号の五を第九号の四とする改正規定、同表第二十号の五の改正規定、別表第二第二号（十の三）の改正規定並びに別表第三第二号の改正規定を除く。）並びに附則第七条及び第九条の規定は、公布の日から施行する。 suppl-4101-54/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2000; provided, however, that the amending provisions of Appended Table 1 through Appended Table 4 of the Local Autonomy Act in Article 1 (excluding the amending provisions that delete item (viii)-2 of Appended Table 1, make item (viii)-3 item (viii)-2, delete item (viii)-4 and item (ix)-3, make item (ix)-4 item (ix)-3, and make item (ix)-5 item (ix)-4, the amending provisions of item (xx)-5 of that Table, the amending provisions of Appended Table 2, item (ii), (10)-3, and the amending provisions of Appended Table 3, item (ii)) and the provisions of Articles 7 and 9 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official ### 第八条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4101-54/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54/art-8 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為及びこの法律の附則において従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4101-54/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54/art-8/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the Supplementary Provisions of this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ### 第九条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4101-54/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54/art-9 **第一項** 附則第二条から前条までに定めるもののほか、この法律の施行のため必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。 suppl-4101-54/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54/art-9/par-1 In addition to what is provided for in Article 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4101-54/art-1/par-1: 第九条 → 国民健康保険法 附則第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9), suppl-4101-54/art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54/art-9 - suppl-4101-54/art-9/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 国民健康保険法 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-4101-54/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54/art-8 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite 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-4101-54/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54/art-1/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 附則第九条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-54/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4101-54/art-9/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-20261017T183826-018, 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