# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百七十三条 (Article 173) - 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: 第百七十三条 (Article 173)（日雇拠出金の徴収及び納付義務） — address `art-173` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-173 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-173 - 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. --- ### 第百七十三条（日雇拠出金の徴収及び納付義務） — (Collection and Payment Obligation of Day Laborer Contributions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-173 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-173 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-173 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、日雇特例被保険者に係る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・子育て支援納付金の納付に要する費用を含む。第百七十五条において同じ。）に充てるため、第百五十五条の規定により保険料を徴収するほか、毎年度、日雇特例被保険者を使用する事業主の設立する健康保険組合（以下「日雇関係組合」という。）から拠出金を徴収する。 art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-173/par-1 In order to allocate them to expenses required for health insurance services pertaining to specially-insured day laborers (including expenses required for payment of young-old payments, etc., aid for the old-old, etc., long-term care payments, contributions for securing medical care in the early phase of an epidemic, etc., and children and child-rearing support levies; the same applies in Article 175), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, beyond collecting insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of Article 155, collects contributions every fiscal year from health insurance societies established by employers of specially-insured day laborers (hereinafter referred to as "day laborer health societies"). machine translation, not official **第二項** 日雇関係組合は、前項に規定する拠出金（以下「日雇拠出金」という。）を納付する義務を負う。 art-173/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-173/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-173/par-2 A day laborer health society is obliged to pay the contributions prescribed in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "day laborer contributions"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-173/par-1: 第百七十五条 → 健康保険法 第百七十五条 (Article 175), art-175 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-175 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-175 - art-173/par-1: 第百五十五条 → 健康保険法 第百五十五条 (Article 155), art-155 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-155 - art-173/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百七十三条第一項 (Article 173, paragraph (1)), art-173/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-173/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百五十一条第一項（国庫負担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-151/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-151/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百五十五条第一項（保険料） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-155/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百六十条第三項第二号（保険料率） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-160/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160/par-3/item-2 - 健康保険法 第百七十三条第二項（日雇拠出金の徴収及び納付義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-173/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-173/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百七十四条第一項（日雇拠出金の額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-174/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-174/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百七十八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-178/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-178/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百七十九条第一項（国民健康保険の保険者への適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-179/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百五条の二第一項第八号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-205-2/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-205-2/par-1/item-8 - 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-20261010T183826-005, 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