# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-4271-31/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4271-31/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 suppl-4271-31/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4271-31/art-5 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に第四条の規定による改正前の国民健康保険法（以下「平成三十年改正前国保法」という。）第十一条第一項の規定により市町村（特別区を含む。以下同じ。）に置かれている国民健康保険運営協議会は、第四条の規定による改正後の国民健康保険法（以下「平成三十年改正後国保法」という。）第十一条第二項の規定により置かれた市町村の国民健康保険事業の運営に関する協議会とみなす。 suppl-4271-31/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4271-31/art-5/par-1 The council for the administration of national health insurance that, at the time of enforcement of this Act, has been established in a Municipality (including special wards; the same applies hereinafter) pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (1) of the National Health Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 4 (hereinafter referred to as the "National Health Insurance Act Before the 2018 Amendment") is deemed to be the council for the administration of the national health insurance services of the Municipality established pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (2) of the National Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4 (hereinafter referred to as the "National Health Insurance Act as Amended in 2018"). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-31/art-5/par-1: 第十一条第二項 → 国民健康保険法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-11/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 附則第九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4271-31/art-9/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-20261017T183826-036, 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