# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)（健康保険法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5051-48/art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条（健康保険法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Health Insurance Act, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5051-48/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-15 **第一項** 保険者（健康保険法第四条に規定する保険者をいう。）は、第五条の規定による改正後の同法第五十一条の三第一項前段に規定する場合において、必要があると認めるときは、当分の間、同項の規定にかかわらず、職権で、被保険者に対し、同項後段の厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、同項の厚生労働省令で定める事項を記載した書面を交付し、又は当該事項を同項に規定する電磁的方法により提供することができる。 suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1 An insurer (meaning the insurer prescribed in Article 4 of the Health Insurance Act) may, in the case prescribed in the first sentence of Article 51-3, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 5, if it finds it necessary, for the time being, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, ex officio, deliver to an insured person, as provided by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph, a document stating the matters specified by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in that paragraph, or provide those matters by the electronic or magnetic means prescribed in that paragraph. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定は、第六条の規定による改正後の船員保険法第二十八条の二第一項、第八条の規定による改正後の防衛省の職員の給与等に関する法律第二十二条第六項、第九条の規定による改正後の国家公務員共済組合法第五十三条の二第一項、第十条の規定による改正後の国民健康保険法第九条第二項（同法第二十二条において準用する場合を含む。）、第十一条の規定による改正後の地方公務員等共済組合法第五十五条の二第一項又は第十二条の規定による改正後の高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第五十四条第三項の規定による書面の交付及び電磁的方法による提供について準用する。この場合において、必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。 suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the delivery of documents and the provision by electronic or magnetic means under Article 28-2, paragraph (1) of the Mariners Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 6, Article 22, paragraph (6) of the Act on Remuneration, etc. of Ministry of Defense Personnel as amended by the provisions of Article 8, Article 53-2, paragraph (1) of the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act as amended by the provisions of Article 9, Article 9, paragraph (2) of the National Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 10 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22 of that Act), Article 55-2, paragraph (1) of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act as amended by the provisions of Article 11, or Article 54, paragraph (3) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People as amended by the provisions of Article 12. In this case, any technical replacement of terms necessary is specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1: 健康保険法第四条 → 健康保険法 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-4 - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1: 同法第五十一条の三第一項 → 健康保険法 第五十一条の三第一項 (Article 51-3, paragraph (1)), art-51-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-51-3/par-1 - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 附則第十五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15, paragraph (1)), suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-1 - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2: 船員保険法第二十八条の二第一項 → e-Gov law 314AC0000000073, 第二十八条の二第一項 (Article 28-2, paragraph (1)), art-28-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2: 防衛省の職員の給与等に関する法律第二十二条第六項 → e-Gov law 327AC0000000266, 第二十二条第六項 (Article 22, paragraph (6)), art-22/par-6 — not held in this collection - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2: 国家公務員共済組合法第五十三条の二第一項 → e-Gov law 333AC0000000128, 第五十三条の二第一項 (Article 53-2, paragraph (1)), art-53-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2: 国民健康保険法第九条第二項 → 国民健康保険法 第九条第二項 (Article 9, paragraph (2)), art-9/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-9/par-2 - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2: 同法第二十二条 → 国民健康保険法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-22 - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2: 地方公務員等共済組合法第五十五条の二第一項 → e-Gov law 337AC0000000152, 第五十五条の二第一項 (Article 55-2, paragraph (1)), art-55-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第五十四条第三項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十四条第三項 (Article 54, paragraph (3)), art-54/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-54/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-1/par-1/item-2 - 国民健康保険法 附則第十五条第二項（健康保険法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5051-48/art-15/par-2 --- ## 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-20261017T183826-041, 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