# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百五十五条 (Article 155) - 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: 第百五十五条 (Article 155)（保険料） — address `art-155` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-155 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-155 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百五十五条（保険料） — (Insurance Premiums) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-155 **第一項** 保険者等は、健康保険事業に要する費用（前期高齢者納付金等及び後期高齢者支援金等、介護納付金、流行初期医療確保拠出金等並びに子ども・子育て支援納付金並びに健康保険組合においては、第百七十三条の規定による拠出金の納付に要する費用を含む。）に充てるため、保険料を徴収する。 art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-155/par-1 An insurer, etc. collects insurance premiums to be allocated for the expenses required for health insurance services (including the expenses required for the payment of young-old payments, etc., aid for the old-old, etc., the long-term care payment, the contribution for securing medical care in the early phase of an epidemic, etc. and the children and child-rearing support levy, and, in the case of a health insurance society, the contributions pursuant to the provisions of Article 173). machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、協会が管掌する健康保険の任意継続被保険者に関する保険料は、協会が徴収する。 art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-155/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, insurance premiums related to insured persons with optional and continued coverage administered by JHIA are collected by JHIA. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-155/par-1: 第百七十三条 → 健康保険法 第百七十三条 (Article 173), art-173 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-173 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-173 - art-155/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百五十五条第一項 (Article 155, paragraph (1)), art-155/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-155/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百五十五条第二項（保険料） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-155/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百七十三条第一項（日雇拠出金の徴収及び納付義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-173/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百五条の二第一項第五号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205-2/par-1/item-5 - 健康保険法 第二百五条の四第一項第二号（基盤機構等への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205-4/par-1/item-2 - 健康保険法 第二百五条の四第一項第三号（基盤機構等への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205-4/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205-4/par-1/item-3 - 健康保険法 附則第四条の二第一項（病床転換支援金の経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-4-2/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第二十四条第一項（短時間被保険者に係る健康保険料に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/art-24/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第二十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/art-25/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-004, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10