# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第七十四条 (Article 74) - 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: 第七十四条 (Article 74)（国の補助） — address `art-74` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-74 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-74 - 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. --- ### 第七十四条（国の補助） — (Assistance by the National Government) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-74 **第一項** 国は、第六十九条、第七十条、第七十二条、第七十二条の三の二第二項、第七十二条の三の三第二項、第七十二条の四第二項、第七十二条の五第一項及び第七十三条に規定するもののほか、予算の範囲内において、保健師に要する費用についてはその三分の一を、国民健康保険事業に要するその他の費用についてはその一部を補助することができる。 art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-74/par-1 In addition to what is provided for in Articles 69, 70 and 72, Article 72-3-2, paragraph (2), Article 72-3-3, paragraph (2), Article 72-4, paragraph (2), Article 72-5, paragraph (1) and Article 73, the national government may, within the limits of its budget, assist with one-third of the expenses for public health nurses and with part of the other expenses for national health insurance services. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-74/par-1: 第六十九条 → 国民健康保険法 第六十九条 (Article 69), art-69 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-69 - art-74/par-1: 第七十条 → 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-74/par-1: 第七十二条 → 国民健康保険法 第七十二条 (Article 72), art-72 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72 - art-74/par-1: 第七十二条の三の二第二項 → 国民健康保険法 第七十二条の三の二第二項 (Article 72-3-2, paragraph (2)), art-72-3-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-3-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-3-2/par-2 - art-74/par-1: 第七十二条の三の三第二項 → 国民健康保険法 第七十二条の三の三第二項 (Article 72-3-3, paragraph (2)), art-72-3-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-3-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-3-3/par-2 - art-74/par-1: 第七十二条の四第二項 → 国民健康保険法 第七十二条の四第二項 (Article 72-4, paragraph (2)), art-72-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-4/par-2 - art-74/par-1: 第七十二条の五第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第七十二条の五第一項 (Article 72-5, paragraph (1)), art-72-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-5/par-1 - art-74/par-1: 第七十三条 → 国民健康保険法 第七十三条 (Article 73), art-73 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-73 --- ## 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-20261017T183826-005, 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