# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)

- 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（国民健康保険法の一部改正に伴う準備行為） — address `suppl-5081-31/art-6`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5081-31/art-6
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5081-31/art-6
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### 第六条（国民健康保険法の一部改正に伴う準備行為） — Preparatory Acts Accompanying Partial Amendment of the National Health Insurance Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5081-31/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5081-31/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5081-31/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  国民健康保険団体連合会は、第六号施行日前においても、第六号新国民健康保険法第八十五条の三第一項に規定する分娩費の請求に関する審査及び支払並びに出産時一時金の支払に関する業務の実施に必要な準備行為をすることができる。
<sup>suppl-5081-31/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-5081-31/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-5081-31/art-6/par-1</sup>
A Federation of National Health Insurance Associations may, even before the item (vi) Effective Date, take preparatory actions necessary for carrying out operations relating to the examination of and payment for claims for delivery expenses prescribed in Article 85-3, paragraph (1) of the item (vi) new National Health Insurance Act, and to the payment of lump-sum allowance at childbirth.
<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-20261017T183826-043, 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