# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第七十一条 (Article 71) - 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: 第七十一条 (Article 71)（国庫負担金の減額） — address `art-71` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-71 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-71 - 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. --- ### 第七十一条（国庫負担金の減額） — (Reduction of the Share of the National Treasury) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-71 **第一項** 都道府県又は当該都道府県内の市町村が確保すべき収入を不当に確保しなかつた場合においては、国は、政令で定めるところにより、前条の規定により当該都道府県に対して負担すべき額を減額することができる。 art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-71/par-1 In cases where a prefecture or a Municipality within that prefecture unjustly fails to secure the income that it should have secured, the national government may, as provided by Cabinet Order, reduce the amount that it is to bear for the prefecture pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により減額する額は、不当に確保しなかつた額をこえることができない。 art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-71/par-2 The amount of reduction permitted pursuant to the preceding paragraph may not exceed the amount of income which unjustly failed to be secured. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-71/par-1: 前条 → 国民健康保険法 第七十条 (Article 70), art-70 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-70 - art-71/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第七十一条第一項 (Article 71, paragraph (1)), art-71/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-71/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第七十一条第二項（国庫負担金の減額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-71/par-2 --- ## 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-20261017T183826-004, 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