# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 23) - 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: 第二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 23)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5071-87/art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5071-87/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5071-87/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5071-87/art-23 **第一項** 附則第一条第五号及び第九号に掲げる規定の施行前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-5071-87/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5071-87/art-23/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, items (v) and (ix) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5071-87/art-23/par-1: 附則第一条第五号 → 国民健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第五号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (v)), suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-5 - suppl-5071-87/art-23/par-1: 第九号 → 国民健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第九号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ix)), suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-9 ## 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五号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-5 - 国民健康保険法 附則第二十四条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5071-87/art-24/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-20261017T183826-042, 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