# 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-4171-77/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-4171-77/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4171-77/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
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<sup>suppl-4171-77/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4171-77/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、平成十八年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、それぞれ当該各号に定める日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4171-77/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4171-77/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2006; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items, respectively:
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一**  第一条、第五条、第八条、第十一条、第十三条及び第十五条並びに附則第四条、第十五条、第二十二条、第二十三条第二項、第三十二条、第三十九条及び第五十六条の規定　公布の日
  <sup>suppl-4171-77/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4171-77/art-1/par-1/item-1</sup>
  The provisions of Article 1, Article 5, Article 8, Article 11, Article 13 and Article 15, and of Article 4, Article 15, Article 22, Article 23, paragraph (2), Article 32, Article 39 and Article 56 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation;
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4171-77/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第五十六条 → 健康保険法 附則第五十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 56), suppl-4171-77/art-56 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4171-77/art-56

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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-20261010T183826-024, 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