# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百六十条の二 (Article 160-2)

- 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: 第百六十条の二 (Article 160-2)（子ども・子育て支援金率） — address `art-160-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-160-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160-2
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### 第百六十条の二（子ども・子育て支援金率） — Children and Child-rearing Support Payment Rate
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-160-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-160-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160-2</sup>

**第一項**  子ども・子育て支援金率は、各年度において全ての保険者が納付すべき子ども・子育て支援納付金の総額を当該年度における全ての保険者が管掌する被保険者の総報酬額の総額の見込額で除した率を基礎として政令で定める率の範囲内において、保険者が定める。
<sup>art-160-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-160-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160-2/par-1</sup>
The children and child-rearing support payment rate is determined by the insurer within the range of the rate specified by Cabinet Order on the basis of the rate obtained by dividing the total amount of children and child-rearing support levies to be paid by all insurers each fiscal year by the estimated total amount of the total remuneration of insured persons administered by all insurers in the relevant fiscal year.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  協会は、前項の規定により子ども・子育て支援金率を定めたときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、遅滞なく、その旨を厚生労働大臣に通知しなければならない。
<sup>art-160-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-160-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160-2/par-2</sup>
When JHIA has determined the children and child-rearing support payment rate pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect without delay, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-160-2/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百六十条の二第一項 (Article 160-2, paragraph (1)), art-160-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-160-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160-2/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 健康保険法 第百六十条の二第二項（子ども・子育て支援金率） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-160-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160-2/par-2

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## 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
