# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

- 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-4271-31/art-7`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4271-31/art-7
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### 第七条
<sup>suppl-4271-31/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4271-31/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  都道府県は、施行日の前日までに、平成三十年改正後国保法第八十二条の二（第八項を除く。）の規定の例により、同条第一項に規定する都道府県国民健康保険運営方針を定めるものとする。
<sup>suppl-4271-31/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4271-31/art-7/par-1</sup>
A prefecture is to establish, by the day before the Effective Date, the prefectural national health insurance management policy prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article, in accordance with the provisions of Article 82-2 of the National Health Insurance Act as Amended in 2018 (excluding paragraph (8)).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4271-31/art-7/par-1: 平成三十年改正後国保法第八十二条の二 → 国民健康保険法 第八十二条の二 (Article 82-2), art-82-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-82-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-82-2
- suppl-4271-31/art-7/par-1: 第八項 → 国民健康保険法 第八十二条の二第九項 (Article 82-2, paragraph (9)), art-82-2/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-82-2/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-82-2/par-9
- suppl-4271-31/art-7/par-1: 同条第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第八十二条の二第一項 (Article 82-2, paragraph (1)), art-82-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-82-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-82-2/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 国民健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-1
- 国民健康保険法 附則第九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4271-31/art-9/par-1

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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-20261017T183826-036, 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
