# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第百十条 (Article 110)

- Law: 国民健康保険法 (National Health Insurance Act), 昭和三十三年法律第百九十二号
- English title "National 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: 第百十条 (Article 110)（時効） — address `art-110`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-110
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-110
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### 第百十条（時効） — (Prescription)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-110 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-110 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-110</sup>

**第一項**  保険料その他この法律の規定による徴収金を徴収し、又はその還付を受ける権利及び保険給付を受ける権利は、これらを行使することができる時から二年を経過したときは、時効によつて消滅する。
<sup>art-110/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-110/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-110/par-1</sup>
The right to collect insurance premiums and other monies to be collected pursuant to the provisions of this Act or to receive refunds of such monies and the right to receive insurance benefits shall be extinguished by prescription after a lapse of two years from the time when these rights may be exercised.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  保険料その他この法律の規定による徴収金の徴収の告知又は督促は、時効の更新の効力を生ずる。
<sup>art-110/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-110/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-110/par-2</sup>
Any notice of collection of, or any demand for, insurance premiums or any other money to be collected pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall have the effect of renewal of prescription.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/333AC0000000192/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-17
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — National Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-health-insurance-act-20261017T183826-009, translated 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17