# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) — address `suppl-3321-42/art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3321-42/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3321-42/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条 suppl-3321-42/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3321-42/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3321-42/art-6 **第一項** 昭和三十二年七月一日において現に病院又は診療所に収容されている者は、当該疾病又は負傷及びこれにより発した疾病に関しては、新法第四十三条ノ八第一項第二号（新法第四十三条ノ十六第二項において例による場合を含む。）の規定による一部負担金を支払うことを要しない。ただし、その者が同日以後引き続き当該疾病又は負傷及びこれにより発した疾病により病院又は診療所に収容されている間に限る。 suppl-3321-42/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3321-42/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3321-42/art-6/par-1 A person who is accommodated in a hospital or clinic as of July 1, 1957 is not required to pay the co-payment under the provisions of Article 43-8, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the New Act (including the case where it is applied in accordance with Article 43-16, paragraph (2) of the New Act) with regard to the sickness or injury concerned and the sickness arising therefrom; provided, however, that this is limited to the period during which the person continues, on or after that day, to be accommodated in a hospital or clinic by reason of the sickness or injury concerned and the sickness arising therefrom. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3321-42/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3321-42/art-1/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-20261010T183826-011, 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