# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) — address `suppl-4121-140/art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4121-140/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条 suppl-4121-140/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4121-140/art-15 **第一項** 施行日前に行われた療養に係る国民健康保険法第五十九条の規定の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4121-140/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4121-140/art-15/par-1 With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 59 of the National Health Insurance Act to medical treatment given before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 附則第二十九条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4121-140/art-29/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-20261017T183826-020, 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