# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) — address `suppl-3591-77/art-20` - 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-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条 suppl-3591-77/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-20 **第一項** 施行日前に旧日雇健保法の規定によつてした保険給付は、新健保法の相当する規定によつてした保険給付とみなす。 suppl-3591-77/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-20/par-1 Insurance benefits provided before the Effective Date under the provisions of the Former Day Laborers Health Insurance Act are deemed to be insurance benefits provided under the corresponding provisions of the Revised Health Insurance Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 施行日前に給付事由が生じた旧日雇健保法の規定による保険給付（以下「旧保険給付」という。）については、附則第二十九条の規定によるもののほか、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3591-77/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-20/par-2 With regard to insurance benefits under the provisions of the Former Day Laborers Health Insurance Act for which the grounds for a benefit claim arose before the Effective Date (hereinafter referred to as "former insurance benefits"), except as provided for in Article 29 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第三項** 施行日前に行われた旧日雇健保法の規定による療養の給付又は家族療養費、特別療養費若しくは高額療養費の支給に係る療養に要した費用に関する旧日雇健保法第十条第五項第一号に掲げる病院若しくは診療所又は薬局の請求については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3591-77/art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-20/par-3 With regard to a claim by a hospital, clinic or pharmacy listed in Article 10, paragraph (5), item (i) of the Former Day Laborers Health Insurance Act for the expenses required for medical treatment pertaining to benefits for medical treatment or the payment of dependent's medical expenses, special medical expenses or high-cost medical expenses under the provisions of the Former Day Laborers Health Insurance Act that were provided before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3591-77/art-20/par-2: 附則第二十九条 → 健康保険法 附則第二十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 29), suppl-3591-77/art-29 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-29 --- ## 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