# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) — address `suppl-4101-109/art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条 suppl-4101-109/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-15 **第一項** 附則第一条第一号に掲げる規定の施行の際現に旧健保法第四十三条ノ三第一項の指定を受けている病院又は診療所については、新健保法第四十三条ノ三第四項（同条第六項において準用する場合を除く。）の規定は、公布の日から起算して二年を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日までの間は、適用しない。 suppl-4101-109/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-15/par-1 With regard to a hospital or clinic that, at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions, has actually received designation under Article 43-3, paragraph (1) of the Former Health Insurance Act, the provisions of Article 43-3, paragraph (4) of the Revised Health Insurance Act (excluding as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (6) of that Article) do not apply until the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding two years from the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4101-109/art-15/par-1: 附則第一条第一号 → 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-16/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-20261010T183826-019, 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