# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百五十九条の二 (Article 159-2) - 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: 第百五十九条の二 (Article 159-2) — address `art-159-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159-2 - 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. --- ### 第百五十九条の二 art-159-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159-2 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣が保険料を徴収する場合において、適用事業所の事業主から保険料、厚生年金保険法第八十一条に規定する保険料（以下「厚生年金保険料」という。）及び子ども・子育て支援法第六十九条に規定する拠出金（以下「子ども・子育て拠出金」という。）の一部の納付があったときは、当該事業主が納付すべき保険料、厚生年金保険料及び子ども・子育て拠出金の額を基準として按分した額に相当する保険料の額が納付されたものとする。 art-159-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159-2/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare collects insurance premiums and the employer of an applicable place of business pays part of the insurance premiums, the premiums prescribed in Article 81 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as "employees' pension insurance premiums") and the contributions prescribed in Article 69 of the Act on Support for Children and Child-rearing (hereinafter referred to as "children and child-rearing contributions"), it is deemed that an amount of insurance premiums equivalent to an amount proportional to the amounts of insurance premiums, employees' pension insurance premiums, and children and child-rearing contributions to be paid by the employer has been paid. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-159-2/par-1: 厚生年金保険法第八十一条 → 厚生年金保険法 第八十一条 (Article 81), art-81 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-81 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第八条の二第一項（平成二十二年度等における子ども手当の支給に関する法律により適用される旧児童手当法の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8-2/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第八条の三第一項（平成二十三年度における子ども手当の支給等に関する特別措置法により適用される旧児童手当法の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8-3/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-20261010T183826-005, 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