# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百四条 (Article 104) - Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号 - English title "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: 第百四条 (Article 104)（傷病手当金又は出産手当金の継続給付） — address `art-104` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-104 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-104 - 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. --- ### 第百四条（傷病手当金又は出産手当金の継続給付） — (Continued Benefits for Injury and Sickness Allowance or Childbirth Allowance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-104 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-104 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-104 **第一項** 被保険者の資格を喪失した日（任意継続被保険者の資格を喪失した者にあっては、その資格を取得した日）の前日まで引き続き一年以上被保険者（任意継続被保険者又は共済組合の組合員である被保険者を除く。）であった者（第百六条において「一年以上被保険者であった者」という。）であって、その資格を喪失した際に傷病手当金又は出産手当金の支給を受けているものは、被保険者として受けることができるはずであった期間、継続して同一の保険者からその給付を受けることができる。 art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-104/par-1 A person who continued to have been an insured person for one year or more until the day preceding the day of loss of eligibility (in case of an insured person with optional and continued coverage, by the day of acquisition of eligibility) as an insured person (excluding insured persons with optional and continued coverage who are members of a mutual aid association) (referred to as a "person who was insured for one year or more" in Article 106) and who received payment of injury and sickness allowance or childbirth allowance at the time of loss of the eligibility may continue to receive the benefits from the same insurer for the period in which the person was eligible for the payment as an insured person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-104/par-1: 第百六条 → 健康保険法 第百六条 (Article 106), art-106 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-106 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-106 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百五条第一項（資格喪失後の死亡に関する給付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-105/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百七条第一項（船員保険の被保険者となった場合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-107/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-107/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百八条第五項（傷病手当金又は出産手当金と報酬等との調整） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-108/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-108/par-5 - 健康保険法 附則第三条第五項（特定健康保険組合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-3/par-5 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10