# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)

- 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日等） — address `suppl-4021-31/art-1`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4021-31/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4021-31/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日等） — Effective Date, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4021-31/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4021-31/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4021-31/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、公布の日から施行する。ただし、第八十一条の改正規定は平成三年四月一日から、第三十九条、第四十三条及び第四十四条の改正規定並びに次条の規定は平成四年四月一日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4021-31/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4021-31/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4021-31/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending Article 81 come into effect on April 1, 1991, and the provisions amending Articles 39, 43 and 44 and the provisions of the following Article come into effect on April 1, 1992.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  改正後の第七十条第一項及び第二項、第七十二条第二項、第七十二条の二並びに第七十三条第一項第二号、第二項及び第四項の規定は、平成二年四月一日から適用する。
<sup>suppl-4021-31/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4021-31/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4021-31/art-1/par-2</sup>
The provisions of Article 70, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 72, paragraph (2), Article 72-2, and Article 73, paragraph (1), item (ii), paragraphs (2) and (4) as amended apply from April 1, 1990.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4021-31/art-1/par-1: 次条 → 国民健康保険法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4021-31/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4021-31/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4021-31/art-2

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## 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-20261017T183826-016, 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
