# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百五十九条 (Article 159) - 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: 第百五十九条 (Article 159) — address `art-159` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159 - 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. --- ### 第百五十九条 art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159 **第一項** 育児休業等をしている被保険者（第百五十九条の三の規定の適用を受けている被保険者を除く。次項において同じ。）が使用される事業所の事業主が、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより保険者等に申出をしたときは、次の各号に掲げる場合の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める月の当該被保険者に関する保険料（その育児休業等の期間が一月以下である者については、標準報酬月額に係る保険料に限る。）は、徴収しない。 art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159/par-1 When the employer of the place of business at which an insured person who is taking childcare leave (excluding insured persons to whom the provisions of Article 159-3 apply; the same applies in the following paragraph) is employed makes a request to an insurer, etc. as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, insurance premiums relating to the insured person for the month specified in each of the following items in accordance with the classification of cases listed in those items (for a person whose period of childcare leave is one month or less, limited to insurance premiums on the standard monthly remuneration amount) are not collected. machine translation, not official **一** その育児休業等を開始した日の属する月とその育児休業等が終了する日の翌日が属する月とが異なる場合　その育児休業等を開始した日の属する月からその育児休業等が終了する日の翌日が属する月の前月までの月 art-159/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159/par-1/item-1 in the case where the month including the date on which the childcare leave begins differs from the month including the day after the last day of the childcare leave: the months from the month including the date on which the childcare leave begins until the month preceding the month including the day after the last day of the childcare leave; machine translation, not official **二** その育児休業等を開始した日の属する月とその育児休業等が終了する日の翌日が属する月とが同一であり、かつ、当該月における育児休業等の日数として厚生労働省令で定めるところにより計算した日数が十四日以上である場合　当該月 art-159/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159/par-1/item-2 in the case where the month including the date on which the childcare leave begins is the same as the month including the day after the last day of the childcare leave, and the number of days of childcare leave in that month, calculated as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, is 14 days or more: that month. machine translation, not official **第二項** 被保険者が連続する二以上の育児休業等をしている場合（これに準ずる場合として厚生労働省令で定める場合を含む。）における前項の規定の適用については、その全部を一の育児休業等とみなす。 art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159/par-2 With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph in the case where an insured person takes two or more consecutive periods of childcare leave (including cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as equivalent thereto), all of them are deemed to be a single period of childcare leave. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-159/par-1: 第百五十九条の三 → 健康保険法 第百五十九条の三 (Article 159-3), art-159-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159-3 - art-159/par-1: 次項 → 健康保険法 第百五十九条第二項 (Article 159, paragraph (2)), art-159/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159/par-2 - art-159/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百五十九条第一項 (Article 159, paragraph (1)), art-159/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 健康保険法 第百五十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百五十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159/par-2 - 健康保険法 第二百四条第一項第十二号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-204/par-1/item-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-204/par-1/item-12 - 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 附則第二条第七項（健康保険組合の財政調整） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-2/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-2/par-7 - 健康保険法 附則第五十七条第三項（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-57/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4161-104/art-57/par-3 - 健康保険法 附則第三条第三項（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5031-66/art-3/par-3 --- ## 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