# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

- 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4091-124`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4091-124
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4091-124
- Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it.
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## 附　則 平成九年一二月一七日法律第一二四号
<sup>suppl-4091-124 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4091-124 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4091-124</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、介護保険法の施行の日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4091-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4091-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4091-124/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on the date on which the Long-Term Care Insurance Act comes into effect.
<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-20261017T183826-018, 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