# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)

- 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) — address `suppl-4061-56/art-20`
- 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-20
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-20
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### 第二十条
<sup>suppl-4061-56/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-20</sup>

**第一項**  新国保法第百十六条の二の規定は、同条に規定する入所措置が採られたため平成七年四月一日以後に一の市町村又は特別区（以下単に「市町村」という。）の区域内に住所を有するに至った被保険者であって、当該措置が採られた際現に他の市町村の区域内に住所を有していたと認められるものについて、適用する。
<sup>suppl-4061-56/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4061-56/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4061-56/art-20/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 116-2 of the Revised National Health Insurance Act apply to an insured person who, due to the admission measures prescribed in that Article having been taken, has come to have a domicile within the area of one Municipality or special ward (hereinafter simply referred to as "Municipality") on or after April 1, 1995, and who is found to have actually had a domicile within the area of another Municipality when those measures were taken.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261017T183826-017, 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
