# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百五十九条の三 (Article 159-3) - 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: 第百五十九条の三 (Article 159-3) — address `art-159-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159-3 - 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. --- ### 第百五十九条の三 art-159-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159-3 **第一項** 産前産後休業をしている被保険者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、その産前産後休業を開始した日の属する月からその産前産後休業が終了する日の翌日が属する月の前月までの期間、当該被保険者に関する保険料を徴収しない。 art-159-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-159-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-159-3/par-1 When the employer of an insured person who is taking maternity leave applies to an insurer as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, no insurance premiums relating to the insured person are collected during the period from the month including the date on which the maternity leave begins until the month preceding the month including the day after the last day of the maternity leave. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 6 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 附則第四十八条第一項（健康保険の産前産後休業期間中の被保険者の特例に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4241-62/art-48/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