Supplementary Provisions, Article 13Provisional Measures concerning the Amount to be Borne by the National Treasury
第十三条(国庫負担に関する暫定措置)
With regard to the bearing of expenses by the national treasury under the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to the expenses prescribed in items (iv) and (vi) of the same paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), the national treasury bears, for the time being, an amount equivalent to 55 percent of the amount to be borne by the national treasury under the provisions of the same paragraph, notwithstanding the provisions of the same paragraph.
With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (5) in the case where the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply, the phrase "the preceding paragraphs" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the preceding paragraphs (excluding paragraph (1), items (iv) and (vi)) and Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".