# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第三条 (Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（保険者） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/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（保険者） — (Insurers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-3 **第一項** 都道府県は、当該都道府県内の市町村（特別区を含む。以下同じ。）とともに、この法律の定めるところにより、国民健康保険を行うものとする。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-3/par-1 A prefecture is to provide national health insurance, together with the Municipalities (including special wards; the same applies hereinafter) within that prefecture, pursuant to the provisions of this Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 国民健康保険組合は、この法律の定めるところにより、国民健康保険を行うことができる。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-3/par-2 National health insurance societies may provide a national health insurance program pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 附則第二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3331-192/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3331-192/art-2/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-3331-192/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-3331-192/art-3/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十九条の二第一項（市町村の行う特定健康診査等の対象者の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-29-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-29-2/par-1 --- ## 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-20261017T183826-001, 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