Of the provisions of this Act, the provisions amending Article 70-3 of the Health Insurance Act come into effect on the date of promulgation, the provisions amending Article 3 of that Act and the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on April 1, 1957, the provisions of Articles 6, 7 and 10 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on July 1 of that year, and the other provisions come into effect on May 1 of that year; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 43-8 and Article 43-16, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") do not apply until June 30 of that year.

With regard to the status as a dependent of a person who ceases to be a dependent due to the amendment of the provisions of Article 1, paragraph (2) of the Health Insurance Act and who falls under any one of the following items, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions amending paragraph (2) of that Article, only while the person continues to belong to the same household as the insured person in question or the person who was an insured person and is financially supported exclusively by that person; provided, however, that this does not apply to insurance benefits other than the injury and sickness allowance concerned and injury and sickness allowance for a sickness arising from the sickness or injury that was the grounds for payment of that injury and sickness allowance in the case of a person who falls under item (i), or to insurance benefits other than dependent's medical expenses for the sickness or injury concerned and the sickness arising therefrom in the case of a person who falls under item (ii).

Among persons who acquired eligibility as an insured person before April 1, 1957 and have continued to have eligibility as an insured person until that day (excluding persons who have eligibility as an insured person pursuant to the provisions of Article 20 of the Health Insurance Act), with regard to the standard remuneration amount from April 1 to September 30 of that year of a person whose standard monthly remuneration amount for March 1957 is 36,000 yen, Article 3 of the New Act applies, deeming the person to have acquired eligibility as an insured person on April 1 of that year.

With regard to the collection of insurance premiums for months on or before April 1957, the provisions then in force continue to govern; provided, however, that this does not preclude the application of the provisions of Articles 11 and 11-2 of the New Act.

An insured person or a person who was an insured person who receives benefits for medical treatment at a hospital or clinic listed in the items of Article 43, paragraph (3) of the New Act during the period from May 1 to June 30, 1957 must, upon receiving the benefits, pay a co-payment to that hospital or clinic in accordance with the provisions of Article 43-2, paragraph (2) of the Health Insurance Act prior to its amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act"). In this case, the phrase "a person designated by the society" in the proviso to paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a hospital or clinic listed in Article 43, paragraph (3), item (ii)".

A person who is accommodated in a hospital or clinic as of July 1, 1957 is not required to pay the co-payment under the provisions of Article 43-8, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the New Act (including the case where it is applied in accordance with Article 43-16, paragraph (2) of the New Act) with regard to the sickness or injury concerned and the sickness arising therefrom; provided, however, that this is limited to the period during which the person continues, on or after that day, to be accommodated in a hospital or clinic by reason of the sickness or injury concerned and the sickness arising therefrom.

A health insurance society may, for the time being, pay to an insured person who has paid a co-payment pursuant to the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act an amount specified by its constitution, within the range of the amount equivalent to the co-payment that the person paid.

①A person who, as of May 1, 1957, is actually a physician providing health insurance treatment or a pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions pursuant to the provisions of Article 43-3, paragraph (1) of the Former Act or Article 28-3, paragraph (1) of the Mariners Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the Act Partially Amending the Mariners Insurance Act (Act No. 44 of 1957) (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Mariners Insurance Act") is deemed to have received registration as a physician providing health insurance treatment or a pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions pursuant to the provisions of Article 43-5, paragraph (1) of the New Act.

②Advance notice of withdrawal by a physician providing health insurance treatment or a pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions given before May 1, 1957 pursuant to the provisions of Article 43-3, paragraph (5) of the Former Act or Article 28-3, paragraph (5) of the Former Mariners Insurance Act is deemed to be advance notice of cancellation of the registration of a physician providing health insurance treatment or a pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions pursuant to the provisions of Article 43-11, paragraph (3) of the New Act.

③With regard to a person referred to in paragraph (1) who, before May 1, 1957, violated a determination by the Minister of Health and Welfare under the provisions of Article 43-4, paragraph (1) of the Former Act or Article 28-4, paragraph (1) of the Former Mariners Insurance Act, Article 43-13 of the New Act applies, deeming the person to have violated an order under the provisions of Article 43-6, paragraph (1) of the New Act.

④With regard to a person whose designation as a physician providing health insurance treatment or a pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions was revoked before May 1, 1957 pursuant to the provisions of Article 43-4, paragraph (3) of the Former Act or Article 28-4, paragraph (3) of the Former Mariners Insurance Act, Article 43-5 of the New Act applies, deeming the person to have had the person's registration as a physician providing health insurance treatment or a pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions revoked pursuant to the provisions of Article 43-13 of the New Act at the time of that revocation.

⑤A hospital, clinic or pharmacy at which a person referred to in paragraph (1) is actually engaged, as of May 1, 1957, in medical care or prescription under health insurance or Mariners Insurance is deemed, with regard to the medical care or prescription performed by that person, to have received designation as a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 43-3, paragraph (1) of the New Act until October 31, 1957 (or, if the designation pursuant to the provisions of Article 43-3, paragraph (1) of the New Act is made for that hospital, clinic or pharmacy before that day, until the day of that designation).

A person that an insurer has actually designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43-2, paragraph (1) of the Former Act as of May 1, 1957 is deemed, until July 31, 1957, to fall under a hospital, clinic or pharmacy listed in Article 43, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the New Act even if the person does not fall under it, and that designation under the Former Act is deemed to be a designation pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the New Act.

With regard to a person who, as of May 1, 1957, is actually receiving insurance benefits pursuant to the provisions of Article 55 of the Former Act (including the case where it applies mutatis mutandis under Article 57, paragraph (2), Article 59-2, paragraph (5) and Article 59-4, paragraph (3) of the Former Act), the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 55 of the New Act.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before May 1, 1957, the provisions then in force continue to govern.