# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-3591-77/art-3` - 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-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 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 **第一項** 新健保法第十三条第二号に掲げる事業所に使用される者であつて、常時五人以上の従業員を使用する事業所以外の事業所に使用されるものについては、同条（同法第十四条、第十六条から第十八条まで、第二十条第一項、第二十一条、第三十一条、第五十五条第二項（第五十五条ノ二第二項、第五十七条第二項及び第五十九条ノ二第七項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第六十九条の七において適用する場合を含む。）の規定は、昭和六十四年三月三十一日までの間は、政令で定めるところにより、段階的に適用するものとする。 suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1 With regard to persons employed at a place of business listed in Article 13, item (ii) of the Revised Health Insurance Act who are employed at a place of business other than a place of business at which five or more employees work regularly, the provisions of that Article (including where applied under Article 14, Articles 16 through 18, Article 20, paragraph (1), Article 21, Article 31, Article 55, paragraph (2) (including where applied mutatis mutandis in Article 55-2, paragraph (2), Article 57, paragraph (2) and Article 59-2, paragraph (7)) and Article 69-7 of that Act) are to be applied in stages, as specified by Cabinet Order, until March 31, 1989. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1: 同法第十四条 → 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 - suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1: 第十六条から第十八条まで → 健康保険法 第十六条 (Article 16), art-16 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-16 - suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1: 第十六条から第十八条まで → 健康保険法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-17 - suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1: 第十六条から第十八条まで → 健康保険法 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-18 - suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1: 第二十条第一項 → 健康保険法 第二十条第一項 (Article 20, paragraph (1)), art-20/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-20/par-1 - suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1: 第二十一条 → 健康保険法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-21 - suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1: 第三十一条 → 健康保険法 第三十一条 (Article 31), art-31 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-31 - suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1: 第五十五条第二項 → 健康保険法 第五十五条第三項 (Article 55, paragraph (3)), art-55/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-55/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-55/par-3 ## 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-3591-77/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/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-20261010T183826-015, 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