# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百十八条 (Article 118) - 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: 第百十八条 (Article 118) — address `art-118` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-118 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-118 - 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. --- ### 第百十八条 art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-118 **第一項** 被保険者又は被保険者であった者が、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、疾病、負傷又は出産につき、その期間に係る保険給付（傷病手当金及び出産手当金の支給にあっては、厚生労働省令で定める場合に限る。）は、行わない。 art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-118/par-1 Insurance benefits are not provided for sickness, injury or childbirth for a period in which the relevant person who is or was an insured person falls under any of the following items (limited to cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for payment of injury and sickness allowance or childbirth allowance): Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 少年院その他これに準ずる施設に収容されたとき。 art-118/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-118/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-118/par-1/item-1 the person is committed to a juvenile training school or any other institution equivalent thereto; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 刑事施設、労役場その他これらに準ずる施設に拘禁されたとき。 art-118/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-118/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-118/par-1/item-2 the person is confined to a penal institution, work facility, or any other facility equivalent thereto. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険者は、被保険者又は被保険者であった者が前項各号のいずれかに該当する場合であっても、被扶養者に係る保険給付を行うことを妨げない。 art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-118/par-2 An insurer may not prevent insurance benefits pertaining to a dependent of an insured person from being paid even if the person who is or was an insured person falls under any of the items of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-118/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百十八条第一項 (Article 118, paragraph (1)), art-118/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-118/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-118/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-122/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-122/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百四十九条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-149/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百五十八条第一項（保険料の徴収の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-158/par-1 --- ## 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