# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（検討） — address `suppl-5031-66/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5031-66/art-2
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### 第二条（検討） — Review
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<sup>suppl-5031-66/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5031-66/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、この法律の公布後速やかに、全世代対応型の持続可能な社会保障制度を構築する観点から、社会保障制度の改革及び少子化に対処するための施策について、その実施状況の検証を行うとともに、総合的な検討に着手し、その検討の結果に基づいて速やかに法制の整備その他の必要な措置を講ずるものとする。
<sup>suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-1</sup>
The government is to, promptly after the promulgation of this Act, from the perspective of building a sustainable social security system that accommodates all generations, verify the status of implementation of the reform of the social security system and of measures to address the declining birthrate, commence an integrated review, and promptly take legislative measures and other necessary measures based on the results of that review.
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**第二項**  政府は、この法律の施行後五年を目途として、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律（以下この項において「改正後の各法律」という。）の施行の状況等を勘案し、必要があると認めるときは、改正後の各法律の規定について検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。
<sup>suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2</sup>
The government is to, with a target of five years after this Act comes into effect, taking into account the conditions of the enforcement, etc. of the respective Acts as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "the respective Acts as amended"), when it finds it necessary, review the provisions of the respective Acts as amended, and take necessary measures based on the results of that review.
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## Cites
- suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2: この項 → 健康保険法 附則第二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)), suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5031-66/art-1/par-1/item-1
- 健康保険法 附則第二条第二項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2

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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-20261010T183826-038, 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
