# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-3591-77/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3591-77/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して三月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。ただし、第一条中健康保険法第三条第一項の改正規定（同項の表に係る部分に限る。）、第二条中船員保険法第四条第一項の改正規定、同法第五十九条の改正規定（年金保険料率に係る部分に限る。）、同法第五十九条の次に一条を加える改正規定、同法第五十九条ノ二の改正規定、同法第六十条の改正規定（年金保険料率に係る部分に限る。）、同法附則第十二項及び第十三項の改正規定、同法附則第十八項から第二十項までの改正規定並びに附則第九条から第十二条までの規定は昭和五十九年十月一日から、第一条中健康保険法附則に二条を加える改正規定、第二条中船員保険法附則に三項を加える改正規定、第三条中国民健康保険法附則に五項を加える改正規定、附則第四十六条中国家公務員等共済組合法（昭和三十三年法律第百二十八号）附則第十二条の改正規定、附則第四十八条中地方公務員等共済組合法（昭和三十七年法律第百五十二号）附則第十七条の次に一条を加える改正規定並びに附則第五十条中私立学校教職員共済組合法（昭和二十八年法律第二百四十五号）第二十五条第一項の改正規定及び同項の表の改正規定（第百二十六条の五第二項の項に係る部分を除く。）は昭和六十年四月一日から、第二条中船員保険法第五十九条ノ三の改正規定は同年十月一日から、第一条中健康保険法第十三条第二号の改正規定及び附則第三条の規定は昭和六十一年四月一日から、第一条中健康保険法第四十三条ノ十四第一項の改正規定及び第四十四条ノ二の前に一条を加える改正規定（同法第四十四条第十一項に係る部分に限る。）、第三条中国民健康保険法第五十条第一項の改正規定、同法第五十三条の改正規定（同条第九項に係る部分に限る。）及び同法第五章中第八十一条の次に二節を加える改正規定（第八十一条の九から第八十一条の十二までに係る部分に限る。）並びに附則第六十一条（社会保険審議会及び社会保険医療協議会法（昭和二十五年法律第四十七号）第十四条の改正規定に限る。）の規定は公布の日から施行する。 suppl-3591-77/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding three months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 1 amending Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act (limited to the part pertaining to the table in that paragraph), the provisions of Article 2 amending Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Mariners Insurance Act, the provisions amending Article 59 of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to pension insurance premium rates), the provisions adding one Article after Article 59 of that Act, the provisions amending Article 59-2 of that Act, the provisions amending Article 60 of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to pension insurance premium rates), the provisions amending paragraphs (12) and (13) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, the provisions amending paragraphs (18) through (20) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and the provisions of Articles 9 through 12 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of October 1, 1984; the provisions of Article 1 adding two Articles to the Supplementary Provisions of the Health Insurance Act, the provisions of Article 2 adding three paragraphs to the Supplementary Provisions of the Mariners Insurance Act, the provisions of Article 3 adding five paragraphs to the Supplementary Provisions of the National Health Insurance Act, the provisions of Article 46 of the Supplementary Provisions amending Article 12 of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 128 of 1958), the provisions of Article 48 of the Supplementary Provisions adding one Article after Article 17 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 152 of 1962), and the provisions of Article 50 of the Supplementary Provisions amending Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 245 of 1953) and amending the table in that paragraph (excluding the part pertaining to the entry for Article 126-5, paragraph (2)) come into effect as of April 1, 1985; the provisions of Article 2 amending Article 59-3 of the Mariners Insurance Act come into effect as of October 1 of the same year; the provisions of Article 1 amending Article 13, item (ii) of the Health Insurance Act and the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of April 1, 1986; and the provisions of Article 1 amending Article 43-14, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act and adding one Article before Article 44-2 (limited to the part pertaining to Article 44, paragraph (11) of that Act), the provisions of Article 3 amending Article 50, paragraph (1) of the National Health Insurance Act, the provisions amending Article 53 of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to paragraph (9) of that Article) and the provisions adding two Sections after Article 81 in Chapter V of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to Articles 81-9 through 81-12), and the provisions of Article 61 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the provisions amending Article 14 of the Social Insurance Council and Social Insurance Medical Council Act (Act No. 47 of 1950)) come into effect as of the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3591-77/art-1/par-1: 附則第三条 → 健康保険法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-3591-77/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-3 --- ## 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-20261010T183826-015, 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