# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第七十二条の二 (Article 72-2) - 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: 第七十二条の二 (Article 72-2)（都道府県の特別会計への繰入れ） — address `art-72-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十二条の二（都道府県の特別会計への繰入れ） — Transfers to Special Accounts of Prefectures caption: machine translation, not official art-72-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-2 **第一項** 都道府県は、都道府県等が行う国民健康保険の財政の安定化を図り、及び当該都道府県内の市町村の財政の状況その他の事情に応じた財政の調整を行うため、政令で定めるところにより、一般会計から、算定対象額の百分の九に相当する額を当該都道府県の国民健康保険に関する特別会計に繰り入れなければならない。 art-72-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-2/par-1 A prefecture must, as provided by Cabinet Order, transfer from its general account to its special account for national health insurance an amount equal to nine hundredths of the amount for calculation, in order to stabilize the finances of the national health insurance program provided by prefectures, etc. and to adjust finances in accordance with the financial conditions and other circumstances of the Municipalities within the prefecture. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県は、前項に定めるもののほか、政令で定めるところにより、一般会計から、高額医療費負担対象額の四分の一に相当する額を当該都道府県の国民健康保険に関する特別会計に繰り入れなければならない。 art-72-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-2/par-2 In addition to what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, a prefecture must, as provided by Cabinet Order, transfer from its general account to its special account for national health insurance an amount equal to one-fourth of the amount of high-cost medical expenses subject to sharing. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-72-2/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第七十二条の二第一項 (Article 72-2, paragraph (1)), art-72-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-2/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第七十条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-70/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-70/par-3 - 国民健康保険法 第七十二条第二項第一号（調整交付金等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72/par-2/item-1 - 国民健康保険法 第七十二条の二第二項（都道府県の特別会計への繰入れ） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-2/par-2 - 国民健康保険法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4221-35/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4221-35/art-5/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 附則第三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4241-28/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4241-28/art-3/par-3 - 国民健康保険法 附則第四条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4241-28/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4241-28/art-4/par-3 - 国民健康保険法 附則第四十七条第四項第三号（子ども・子育て支援納付金の導入に当たっての経過措置及び留意事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5061-47/art-47/par-4/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5061-47/art-47/par-4/item-3 --- ## 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