# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第二十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22)

- 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
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- Provision: 第二十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22)（国民健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4141-102/art-22`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第二十二条（国民健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the National Health Insurance Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4141-102/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4141-102/art-22</sup>

**第一項**  この法律（附則第一条ただし書に規定する規定については、当該規定。以下この条において同じ。）の施行の日前に行われた療養又は薬剤の支給に係るこの法律による改正前の国民健康保険法の規定による療養費、特別療養費、特例療養費又は高額療養費の支給並びに同法第四十三条の規定による差額の支給及び同法第五十六条の規定による差額の支給については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4141-102/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4141-102/art-22/par-1</sup>
With regard to the payment of medical expenses, special medical expenses, exceptional medical expenses or high-cost medical expenses under the provisions of the National Health Insurance Act before the amendment by this Act, pertaining to medical treatment or the provision of medication conducted before the date on which this Act (or, for the provisions prescribed in the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) comes into effect, and the payment of the difference under Article 43 of that Act and the payment of the difference under Article 56 of that Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4141-102/art-22/par-1: 附則第一条 → 国民健康保険法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-4141-102/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4141-102/art-1
- suppl-4141-102/art-22/par-1: この条 → 国民健康保険法 附則第二十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22), suppl-4141-102/art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4141-102/art-22

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 国民健康保険法 附則第二十二条第一項（国民健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4141-102/art-22/par-1
- 国民健康保険法 附則第三十六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4141-102/art-36/par-1

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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-20261017T183826-022, 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
