# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3221-45` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3221-45 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3221-45 - 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. --- ## 附　則 昭和二二年四月一日法律第四五号 suppl-3221-45 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3221-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3221-45 ### 第一条 suppl-3221-45/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3221-45/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3221-45/art-1 **第一項** この法律施行の期日は、勅令で、これを定める。 suppl-3221-45/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3221-45/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3221-45/art-1/par-1 The effective date of this Act is specified by Imperial Order. machine translation, not official ### 第二条 suppl-3221-45/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3221-45/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3221-45/art-2 **第一項** 常時五人未満の従業員を使用する事業所で、従前の健康保険法第十三条第一号又は第二号に規定する事業所であつたもの又はこれらの事業所であつたため、従前の厚生年金保険法第十六条の規定による事業所であつたものについては、この法律施行の日において、健康保険法第十四条又は厚生年金保険法第十六条ノ二の認可があつたものとみなす。但しこの法律施行の日から一箇月以内に行政庁に被保険者の全部について、その資格を喪失させる旨の届出をした場合は、この限りではない。 suppl-3221-45/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3221-45/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3221-45/art-2/par-1 A place of business that regularly employs fewer than five employees and that was a place of business prescribed in Article 13, item (i) or (ii) of the former Health Insurance Act, or that was a place of business under the provisions of Article 16 of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act by reason of having been such a place of business, is deemed to have obtained, on the day this Act comes into effect, the approval under Article 14 of the Health Insurance Act or Article 16-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act; provided, however, that this does not apply if, within one month from the day this Act comes into effect, a notification to the effect that eligibility is to be lost for all insured persons is submitted to the administrative agency. machine translation, not official ### 第三条 suppl-3221-45/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3221-45/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3221-45/art-3 **第一項** 健康保険法による保険給付で、この法律施行の日前における業務上の事由に因る疾病又は負傷及びこれに因り発した疾病に関するものについては、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3221-45/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3221-45/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3221-45/art-3/par-1 With regard to insurance benefits under the Health Insurance Act for sickness or injury due to work-related causes before the day this Act comes into effect and for sickness arising therefrom, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3221-45/art-2/par-1: 健康保険法第十四条 → 健康保険法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-14 --- ## 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-20261010T183826-009, 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