# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) — address `suppl-4121-140/art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4121-140/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条 suppl-4121-140/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4121-140/art-16 **第一項** 第五条の規定による改正後の国民健康保険法第百十六条の二第一項及び第二項の規定は、病院又は診療所（以下この条において「病院等」という。）に入院したため施行日以後に一の市町村又は特別区（以下この条において単に「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、当該病院等に入院し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。 suppl-4121-140/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4121-140/art-16/par-1 The provisions of Article 116-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the National Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 5 apply to an insured person who, due to being admitted to a hospital or clinic (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "hospital, etc."), has come to have a domicile within the area of one Municipality or special ward (hereinafter in this Article simply referred to as "Municipality") on or after the Effective Date, and who is found to have been domiciled within the area of another Municipality when admitted to that hospital, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4121-140/art-16/par-1: この条 → 国民健康保険法 附則第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16), suppl-4121-140/art-16 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4121-140/art-16 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 附則第十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4121-140/art-16/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 附則第二十九条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4121-140/art-29/par-1 --- ## 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-20261017T183826-020, 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