# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百七十九条 (Article 179) - 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: 第百七十九条 (Article 179)（国民健康保険の保険者への適用） — address `art-179` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-179 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-179 - 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. --- ### 第百七十九条（国民健康保険の保険者への適用） — (Application to Insurers Providing National Health Insurance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-179 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-179 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-179 **第一項** 第三条第一項第八号の承認を受けた者の国民健康保険を行う国民健康保険の保険者は、健康保険組合とみなして、第百七十三条から前条までの規定を適用する。 art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-179/par-1 An insurer providing national health insurance for persons who have been approved pursuant to Article 3, paragraph (1), item (viii) is deemed to be a health insurance society, and the provisions from Article 173 through the preceding Article apply. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An insurer providing national health insurance that has been approved pursuant to Article 3, paragraph (1), item (viii) is deemed to be a health insurance society, and the provisions from Article 73 through the preceding Article apply." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb --- ## Cites - art-179/par-1: 第三条第一項第八号 → 健康保険法 第三条第一項第八号 (Article 3, paragraph (1), item (viii)), art-3/par-1/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-3/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-3/par-1/item-8 - art-179/par-1: 第百七十三条から前条まで → 健康保険法 第百七十三条 (Article 173), art-173 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-173 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-173 - art-179/par-1: 第百七十三条から前条まで → 健康保険法 第百七十四条 (Article 174), art-174 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-174 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-174 - art-179/par-1: 第百七十三条から前条まで → 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-179/par-1: 第百七十三条から前条まで → 健康保険法 第百七十六条 (Article 176), art-176 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-176 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-176 - art-179/par-1: 第百七十三条から前条まで → 健康保険法 第百七十七条 (Article 177), art-177 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-177 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-177 - art-179/par-1: 第百七十三条から前条まで → 健康保険法 第百七十八条 (Article 178), art-178 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-178 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-178 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act (健康保険法), Article 179, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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