# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) - 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59) — address `art-59` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条 art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-59 **第一項** 被保険者又は被保険者であつた者が、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、その期間に係る療養の給付又は入院時食事療養費、入院時生活療養費、保険外併用療養費、訪問看護療養費、特別療養費若しくは移送費の支給（以下この節において「療養の給付等」という。）は、行わない。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-59/par-1 Where a current or former insured person falls under any of the following items, no benefits for medical treatment or benefit for medical expenses for Dietary Treatment for inpatients, Living Support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses for home-nursing, special medical expenses or transport expenses (hereinafter referred to as "Benefits for Medical Treatment, etc." in this Section) shall be provided for the relevant period: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Where a current or former insured person falls under any of the following items, no benefit for medical expenses for Dietary Treatment for inpatients, Living Support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses for home-nursing, special medical expenses or transport expenses (hereinafter referred to as "Benefits for Medical Treatment, etc." in this Section) shall be provided for the relevant period:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb **一** 少年院その他これに準ずる施設に収容されたとき。 art-59/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-59/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-59/par-1/item-1 when such insured person is committed to a juvenile training school or any other institution similar thereto; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 刑事施設、労役場その他これらに準ずる施設に拘禁されたとき。 art-59/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-59/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-59/par-1/item-2 when such insured person is confined to a work facility or any other facility similar thereto. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the National Health Insurance Act, corrected, written 2026-10-18 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — National Health Insurance Act (国民健康保険法), Article 59, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17