①If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and who was an insured on the day of initial examination for the injury or illness has a disability of the degree of severity prescribed by Cabinet Order as a result of that injury or illness as of the day on which the injury or illness has healed, within the period from the relevant day of initial examination until the day that marks the passage of five years' time since that day, a disability allowance is paid to that person.

②The provisions of the proviso of Article 47, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the preceding paragraph.