Twelve Months Is the Gate, and It Is the Intention That Counts: a Stay Meant to Last a Year Makes You a Member From the Day You Arrive
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Sweden on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
195 exceptions recorded across 74 countries · none match Sweden to Norway · Access to healthcare
The National Insurance Act makes everyone resident in Norway a compulsory member, and defines resident as staying in Norway when the stay is intended to last, or has lasted, at least twelve months. A person moving to Norway counts as resident from the date of entry - so the twelve months is a test of intention at the start, not a waiting period to be served. Lawful residence is a condition. Separately, the Patient and User Rights Act applies to everyone staying in the realm, and a regulation made under it draws the line: full rights under chapter 2 belong to a person with lawful residence who either has a fixed stay of at least twelve months, is a member of the National Insurance scheme with a right to health service benefits, or is covered by a reciprocal agreement. Everyone else in the country, lawfully or not, still has a right to assessment by the specialist service and a right to emergency help, and anyone under 18 has close to the full set.
At a glance
- What makes you a member of the National Insurance scheme
- A stay in Norway intended to last, or that has lasted, at least 12 months
Folketrygdloven § 2-1 second paragraph. A person moving to Norway counts as resident from the date of entry.
- Condition attached to membership
- Lawful residence in Norway
Folketrygdloven § 2-1 third paragraph, one sentence.
- Absence that does not break residence
- Up to 12 months, unless you are abroad more than six months a year in two or more consecutive years
Folketrygdloven § 2-1 fourth paragraph.
- Membership through work instead of residence
- Anyone employed in Norway or on the Norwegian part of the continental shelf
Folketrygdloven § 2-2, conditional on lawful access to paid work.
- Who the Patient and User Rights Act covers
- Everyone staying in the realm
Pasient- og brukerrettighetsloven § 1-2 first paragraph. The King may make exceptions from chapter 2 by regulation for people who are not Norwegian citizens or do not have a fixed stay.
- Who gets the full chapter 2 rights
- A lawfully present person with a fixed stay of at least 12 months, a National Insurance member with a right to health service benefits, or a person covered by a reciprocal agreement
Forskrift 16. desember 2011 nr. 1255 § 2, letters a to c. This is the closed list.
- What everyone in the country has regardless
- A right to assessment by the specialist service and a right to emergency help
Sections 1 and 3 of the same regulation, both opening with alle personer som oppholder seg i riket.
- Under 18s outside the full-rights list
- Necessary municipal services and necessary specialist care, beyond emergency help
Section 4 of the same regulation, subject to the child's own interest.
- General practitioner
- A right to be on a list, for anyone resident in a Norwegian municipality
Pasient- og brukerrettighetsloven § 2-1 c, which also covers asylum seekers and their families who are National Insurance members.
Requirements
- Lawful residence in Norway
- A stay intended to last, or that has lasted, at least twelve months, to be a member of the National Insurance scheme
- Or employment in Norway or on the Norwegian continental shelf, with lawful access to paid work
- Registration on a general practitioner's list, which follows from being resident in a municipality
In detail
Intention at arrival, not twelve months served
The sentence that decides this is in section 2-1 second paragraph of the National Insurance Act: a stay counts if it is meant to last at least twelve months, and a person moving to Norway is resident from the date of entry. Someone arriving on a two-year work permit is a member on day one. Someone arriving for eight months is not a member at all, however much tax they pay. The regulation on people without a fixed stay uses the same twelve-month definition for full patient rights, so the two systems line up on the same test rather than running separately.
The floor nobody loses
Three provisions apply to everyone physically in Norway, whatever their status. Section 1-2 of the Patient and User Rights Act says the Act covers everyone staying in the realm. Sections 1 and 3 of the 2011 regulation give every such person a right to specialist assessment and a right to emergency help. That floor is written as a right, not as a discretion, and it is the answer to what a visitor who falls ill actually has.
Country-level policy
Section 6 of the Immigration Act ends a paragraph with the sentence Loven gjelder ikke for Svalbard - the Act does not apply to Svalbard. There is no visa for Svalbard, no residence permit, no work permit and no quota, because the statute that would create them stops at the mainland. Svalbard is also outside Schengen: article 14 of the 1999 agreement associating Norway with the Schengen acquis says the agreement does not apply to Svalbard, and the 1957 Nordic passport agreement printed at the back of the Immigration Act defines a Nordic state as Norway except Svalbard and Jan Mayen. What governs entry instead is a five-section regulation of 1995 on rejection and expulsion, under which the Governor may turn away a person who cannot support themselves or look after themselves, and a 2022 regulation under which a traveller must present a passport valid for entry to Norway when the Governor asks. None of that is a permit, and the Svalbard Treaty gives nationals of the contracting parties an equal right of access and residence subject to local law. What the archipelago does not carry is the rest of the welfare state: the National Insurance Act lets an existing member keep membership on moving there and admits a non-member only through work for a Norwegian employer, and the Patient and User Rights Act has not been extended to Svalbard at all.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Sweden
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Personer som er bosatt i Norge, er pliktige medlemmer i folketrygden.»Our translation - not official
Persons resident in Norway are compulsory members of the National Insurance scheme.
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«Som bosatt i Norge regnes den som oppholder seg i Norge, når oppholdet er ment å vare eller har vart minst 12 måneder. En person som flytter til Norge,»Our translation - not official
A person staying in Norway is regarded as resident in Norway when the stay is intended to last or has lasted at least 12 months. A person who moves to Norway is regarded as resident from the date of entry.
Two sentences that make the twelve months a test of intention rather than a waiting period.
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«Det er et vilkår for medlemskap at vedkommende har lovlig opphold i Norge.»Our translation - not official
It is a condition of membership that the person has lawful residence in Norway.
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«Ved midlertidig fravær fra Norge som ikke er ment å vare mer enn 12 måneder, regnes vedkommende fortsatt som bosatt her. Dette gjelder likevel ikke dersom vedkommende skal oppholde seg eller har oppholdt seg i utlandet mer enn seks måneder pr. år»Our translation - not official
In the case of temporary absence from Norway not intended to last more than 12 months, the person is still regarded as resident here. This does not apply, however, if the person is to stay or has stayed abroad for more than six months a year in two or more consecutive years.
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«En person som ikke er medlem i trygden etter § 2-1, er likevel pliktig medlem i trygden dersom han eller hun er arbeidstaker (§ 1-8) i Norge eller på den norske delen av kontinentalsokkelen i forbindelse med leting etter eller utvinning av olje, gass eller andre naturressurser. Dette gjelder bare dersom ikke noe annet er bestemt»Our translation - not official
A person who is not a member of the scheme under section 2-1 is nevertheless a compulsory member of the scheme if he or she is an employee in Norway or on the Norwegian part of the continental shelf in connection with exploration for or extraction of oil, gas or other natural resources. This applies only unless otherwise provided in or under this Act.
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«Bestemmelsene i dette kapitlet skal fravikes i den utstrekning det er nødvendig av hensyn til relevante bestemmelser i EØS-avtalens hoveddel, trygdeforordningen, gjennomføringsforordningen og»Our translation - not official
The provisions of this chapter shall be departed from to the extent necessary having regard to relevant provisions of the main part of the EEA Agreement, the social security Regulation, the implementing Regulation and bilateral and multilateral social security agreements, see
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Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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«Loven gjelder for alle som oppholder seg i riket.»Our translation - not official
The Act applies to everyone staying in the realm.
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Norway's legal information service, and the body that physically produces Norsk Lovtidend, the official gazette. Lovdata is not a ministry: it is a private foundation, established on 1 July 1981 by the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, and its own English page says so. Forskrift 21. juni 1994 nr. 644, made under section 4 of the Norsk Lovtidend Act, authorises the Ministry to contract with stiftelsen Lovdata for the use of Lovdata's statute and regulation databases, and gives the State a right to take those databases over if the foundation is wound up - so the databases are the foundation's, held under an arrangement with the State. The 1992 circular on publication in Norsk Lovtidend instructs ministries to send material for publication to Norsk Lovtidend, c/o Lovdata. Four kinds of address matter and they are different documents. /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> and /dokument/SF/forskrift/<date>-<nr> are Lovdata's consolidated texts of Acts and central regulations; appending /* to either serves the whole instrument, and without it the address returns only a table of contents and an editorial blurb. /dokument/<...>/KAPITTEL_n serves one chapter. /LTI/lov/<date>-<nr> is the instrument as published in Norsk Lovtidend, which is the official text. /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are unofficial English translations. The free-text search at /sok?q= is readable by the extraction service and is the practical way to find an instrument whose number is unknown; /referanse/hjemmel?dokID=NL/lov/<date>-<nr> lists every regulation made under a given Act. The treaty register at /traktat/<date>-<nr>, which Lovdata administers for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, carries Norwegian texts of treaties with metadata naming the authentic language.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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«Rett til helsehjelp etter pasient- og brukerrettighetsloven kapittel 2 gjelder fullt ut bare for personer som har lovlig opphold i riket og som enten»Our translation - not official
The right to health care under chapter 2 of the Patient and User Rights Act applies in full only to persons who have lawful residence in the realm and who either
The stem of a closed three-letter list: a fixed stay intended to last or that has lasted at least 12 months, membership of the National Insurance scheme with a right to health service benefits, or a right under a reciprocity agreement.
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Norway's legal information service, and the body that physically produces Norsk Lovtidend, the official gazette. Lovdata is not a ministry: it is a private foundation, established on 1 July 1981 by the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, and its own English page says so. Forskrift 21. juni 1994 nr. 644, made under section 4 of the Norsk Lovtidend Act, authorises the Ministry to contract with stiftelsen Lovdata for the use of Lovdata's statute and regulation databases, and gives the State a right to take those databases over if the foundation is wound up - so the databases are the foundation's, held under an arrangement with the State. The 1992 circular on publication in Norsk Lovtidend instructs ministries to send material for publication to Norsk Lovtidend, c/o Lovdata. Four kinds of address matter and they are different documents. /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> and /dokument/SF/forskrift/<date>-<nr> are Lovdata's consolidated texts of Acts and central regulations; appending /* to either serves the whole instrument, and without it the address returns only a table of contents and an editorial blurb. /dokument/<...>/KAPITTEL_n serves one chapter. /LTI/lov/<date>-<nr> is the instrument as published in Norsk Lovtidend, which is the official text. /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are unofficial English translations. The free-text search at /sok?q= is readable by the extraction service and is the practical way to find an instrument whose number is unknown; /referanse/hjemmel?dokID=NL/lov/<date>-<nr> lists every regulation made under a given Act. The treaty register at /traktat/<date>-<nr>, which Lovdata administers for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, carries Norwegian texts of treaties with metadata naming the authentic language.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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«Alle personer som oppholder seg i riket, har rett til øyeblikkelig hjelp etter pasient- og brukerrettighetsloven § 2-1 første ledd og § 2-2 første ledd.»Our translation - not official
All persons staying in the realm have a right to emergency help under section 2-1 first paragraph and section 2-2 first paragraph of the Patient and User Rights Act.
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Norway's legal information service, and the body that physically produces Norsk Lovtidend, the official gazette. Lovdata is not a ministry: it is a private foundation, established on 1 July 1981 by the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, and its own English page says so. Forskrift 21. juni 1994 nr. 644, made under section 4 of the Norsk Lovtidend Act, authorises the Ministry to contract with stiftelsen Lovdata for the use of Lovdata's statute and regulation databases, and gives the State a right to take those databases over if the foundation is wound up - so the databases are the foundation's, held under an arrangement with the State. The 1992 circular on publication in Norsk Lovtidend instructs ministries to send material for publication to Norsk Lovtidend, c/o Lovdata. Four kinds of address matter and they are different documents. /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> and /dokument/SF/forskrift/<date>-<nr> are Lovdata's consolidated texts of Acts and central regulations; appending /* to either serves the whole instrument, and without it the address returns only a table of contents and an editorial blurb. /dokument/<...>/KAPITTEL_n serves one chapter. /LTI/lov/<date>-<nr> is the instrument as published in Norsk Lovtidend, which is the official text. /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are unofficial English translations. The free-text search at /sok?q= is readable by the extraction service and is the practical way to find an instrument whose number is unknown; /referanse/hjemmel?dokID=NL/lov/<date>-<nr> lists every regulation made under a given Act. The treaty register at /traktat/<date>-<nr>, which Lovdata administers for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, carries Norwegian texts of treaties with metadata naming the authentic language.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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«Alle personer som oppholder seg i riket, har rett til vurdering fra spesialisthelsetjenesten etter pasient- og brukerrettighetsloven § 2-2 a andre ledd første og andre punktum. Ved mistanke om alvorlig eller livstruende sykdom har pasienten»Our translation - not official
All persons staying in the realm have a right to assessment by the specialist health service under section 2-2 a second paragraph, first and second sentences, of the Patient and User Rights Act. Where serious or life-threatening illness is suspected the patient has a right to a faster assessment.
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Norway's legal information service, and the body that physically produces Norsk Lovtidend, the official gazette. Lovdata is not a ministry: it is a private foundation, established on 1 July 1981 by the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, and its own English page says so. Forskrift 21. juni 1994 nr. 644, made under section 4 of the Norsk Lovtidend Act, authorises the Ministry to contract with stiftelsen Lovdata for the use of Lovdata's statute and regulation databases, and gives the State a right to take those databases over if the foundation is wound up - so the databases are the foundation's, held under an arrangement with the State. The 1992 circular on publication in Norsk Lovtidend instructs ministries to send material for publication to Norsk Lovtidend, c/o Lovdata. Four kinds of address matter and they are different documents. /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> and /dokument/SF/forskrift/<date>-<nr> are Lovdata's consolidated texts of Acts and central regulations; appending /* to either serves the whole instrument, and without it the address returns only a table of contents and an editorial blurb. /dokument/<...>/KAPITTEL_n serves one chapter. /LTI/lov/<date>-<nr> is the instrument as published in Norsk Lovtidend, which is the official text. /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are unofficial English translations. The free-text search at /sok?q= is readable by the extraction service and is the practical way to find an instrument whose number is unknown; /referanse/hjemmel?dokID=NL/lov/<date>-<nr> lists every regulation made under a given Act. The treaty register at /traktat/<date>-<nr>, which Lovdata administers for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, carries Norwegian texts of treaties with metadata naming the authentic language.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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«Enhver som er bosatt i en norsk kommune, har rett til å stå på liste hos lege med fastlegeavtale. Det samme gjelder asylsøkere og deres familie»Our translation - not official
Everyone resident in a Norwegian municipality has a right to be on the list of a doctor with a general practitioner contract. The same applies to asylum seekers and their families when they are members of the National Insurance scheme.
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Norway's legal information service, and the body that physically produces Norsk Lovtidend, the official gazette. Lovdata is not a ministry: it is a private foundation, established on 1 July 1981 by the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, and its own English page says so. Forskrift 21. juni 1994 nr. 644, made under section 4 of the Norsk Lovtidend Act, authorises the Ministry to contract with stiftelsen Lovdata for the use of Lovdata's statute and regulation databases, and gives the State a right to take those databases over if the foundation is wound up - so the databases are the foundation's, held under an arrangement with the State. The 1992 circular on publication in Norsk Lovtidend instructs ministries to send material for publication to Norsk Lovtidend, c/o Lovdata. Four kinds of address matter and they are different documents. /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> and /dokument/SF/forskrift/<date>-<nr> are Lovdata's consolidated texts of Acts and central regulations; appending /* to either serves the whole instrument, and without it the address returns only a table of contents and an editorial blurb. /dokument/<...>/KAPITTEL_n serves one chapter. /LTI/lov/<date>-<nr> is the instrument as published in Norsk Lovtidend, which is the official text. /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are unofficial English translations. The free-text search at /sok?q= is readable by the extraction service and is the practical way to find an instrument whose number is unknown; /referanse/hjemmel?dokID=NL/lov/<date>-<nr> lists every regulation made under a given Act. The treaty register at /traktat/<date>-<nr>, which Lovdata administers for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, carries Norwegian texts of treaties with metadata naming the authentic language.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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Practical notes
Nothing here says what treatment costs. Patient charges, the exemption card and the rates are set elsewhere and were not read.
Chapter 2 of the National Insurance Act runs to section 2-17 and was read through: it also carries voluntary membership for people in Norway and abroad, exemptions for embassy staff and cruise ship crew, and a separate rule for Svalbard in section 2-3.
The EEA social security Regulation referred to in section 2-1 a was not read. For an EEA national the coordination rules, not this chapter, decide which state insures them.
- consolidatesFolketrygdloven chapter 2, consolidated text at Lovdata
Lovdata, stiftelsen Lovdata
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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- consolidatesForskrift om rett til helse- og omsorgstjenester til personer uten fast opphold i riket
Lovdata, stiftelsen Lovdata
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Norway's legal information service, and the body that physically produces Norsk Lovtidend, the official gazette. Lovdata is not a ministry: it is a private foundation, established on 1 July 1981 by the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, and its own English page says so. Forskrift 21. juni 1994 nr. 644, made under section 4 of the Norsk Lovtidend Act, authorises the Ministry to contract with stiftelsen Lovdata for the use of Lovdata's statute and regulation databases, and gives the State a right to take those databases over if the foundation is wound up - so the databases are the foundation's, held under an arrangement with the State. The 1992 circular on publication in Norsk Lovtidend instructs ministries to send material for publication to Norsk Lovtidend, c/o Lovdata. Four kinds of address matter and they are different documents. /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> and /dokument/SF/forskrift/<date>-<nr> are Lovdata's consolidated texts of Acts and central regulations; appending /* to either serves the whole instrument, and without it the address returns only a table of contents and an editorial blurb. /dokument/<...>/KAPITTEL_n serves one chapter. /LTI/lov/<date>-<nr> is the instrument as published in Norsk Lovtidend, which is the official text. /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are unofficial English translations. The free-text search at /sok?q= is readable by the extraction service and is the practical way to find an instrument whose number is unknown; /referanse/hjemmel?dokID=NL/lov/<date>-<nr> lists every regulation made under a given Act. The treaty register at /traktat/<date>-<nr>, which Lovdata administers for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, carries Norwegian texts of treaties with metadata naming the authentic language.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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