# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17)

- 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: 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17) — address `suppl-5051-48/art-17`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-17
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-17
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### 第十七条
<sup>suppl-5051-48/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-17</sup>

**第一項**  市町村は、第十条の規定による改正後の国民健康保険法（これに基づく命令を含む。）の施行のために必要な条例の制定又は改正その他の行為については、第二号施行日前においても行うことができる。
<sup>suppl-5051-48/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-17/par-1</sup>
A Municipality may, even before the item (ii) Effective Date, enact or revise a Municipal Ordinance and take other actions necessary for the enforcement of the National Health Insurance Act (including orders based thereon) as amended by the provisions of Article 10.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## 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-5051-48/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-1/par-1/item-1
- 国民健康保険法 附則第十六条第一項（国民健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-16/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-20261017T183826-041, 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