# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

- 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-3321-42/art-7`
- 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-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3321-42/art-7
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### 第七条
<sup>suppl-3321-42/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3321-42/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3321-42/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  健康保険組合は、当分の間、健康保険法第七十四条第一項の規定により一部負担金を支払つた被保険者に対し、その支払つた一部負担金に相当する額の範囲内において、規約をもつて定める額の支給を行うことができる。
<sup>suppl-3321-42/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3321-42/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3321-42/art-7/par-1</sup>
A health insurance society may, for the time being, pay to an insured person who has paid a co-payment pursuant to the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act an amount specified by its constitution, within the range of the amount equivalent to the co-payment that the person paid.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3321-42/art-7/par-1: 健康保険法第七十四条第一項 → 健康保険法 第七十四条第一項 (Article 74, paragraph (1)), art-74/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-74/par-1

## 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

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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-20261010T183826-011, 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
