# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17) - 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: 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17) — address `suppl-4061-56/art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条 suppl-4061-56/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-17 **第一項** 附則第四条第一項に規定する厚生大臣の定める病院又は診療所において、第三条の規定による改正後の国民健康保険法（以下「新国保法」という。）第三十六条第一項第五号に掲げる療養の給付を受ける被保険者又は被保険者であった者（老人保健法の規定による医療を受けることができる者を除き、厚生大臣の定める状態にある者に限る。）が、附則第四条第一項に規定する付添看護を受けたときは、平成八年三月三十一日（附則第四条第一項の規定による都道府県知事の承認を受けた病院又は診療所における付添看護については、その日後同項に規定する厚生省令で定める日）までの間、当該付添看護を新国保法第五十四条第一項又は新国保法第五十四条の三第三項に規定する療養の給付等とみなしてこれらの規定を適用する。 suppl-4061-56/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-17/par-1 When an insured person or former insured person (excluding a person who may receive medical care under the provisions of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly, and limited to a person in a condition specified by the Minister of Health and Welfare) who receives the benefits for medical treatment set forth in Article 36, paragraph (1), item (v) of the National Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 (hereinafter referred to as the "Revised National Health Insurance Act") at a hospital or clinic specified by the Minister of Health and Welfare as prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions receives the attendant nursing prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, until March 31, 1996 (for attendant nursing at a hospital or clinic that has obtained the approval of the prefectural governor under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, until the date specified by Ministry of Health and Welfare Order prescribed in that paragraph, which falls after that date), the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (1) or Article 54-3, paragraph (3) of the Revised National Health Insurance Act apply by deeming that attendant nursing to be the benefits for medical treatment, etc. prescribed in those provisions. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261017T183826-017, 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