Supplementary Provisions, Article 15Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Health Insurance Act, etc.

①An 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, 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.

②The 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.