Supplementary Provisions
附 則
Supplementary Provisions, Article 1Effective Date
第一条（施行期日）
This Act comes into effect as of January 1, 1978.
この法律は、昭和五十三年一月一日から施行する。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Health Insurance Act
第二条（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置）
Among persons who acquired eligibility as an insured person of health insurance before January 1, 1978 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 and persons whose standard remuneration amount is to be revised from that month), the standard remuneration amount of a person whose standard monthly remuneration amount for December 1977 is 320,000 yen (excluding persons for whom the monthly remuneration amount that served as the basis of that standard monthly remuneration amount is less than 330,000 yen) is revised by the insurer, deeming the monthly remuneration amount that served as the basis of that standard monthly remuneration amount to be the monthly remuneration amount that forms the basis of the standard remuneration amount under the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of that Act as amended by this Act.
The standard remuneration amount revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the standard remuneration amount from January 1 to September 30 of that year.
With regard to co-payments in the case where a person who is actually accommodated in a hospital or clinic on the day this Act comes into effect 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, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43-8, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by this Act (including the case where it is applied in accordance with Article 43-16, paragraph (2) of that Act).
この法律の施行の日において現に病院又は診療所に収容されている者が当該疾病又は負傷及びこれにより発した疾病により同日以後引き続き病院又は診療所に収容されている場合における一部負担金については、この法律による改正後の健康保険法第四十三条ノ八第一項第二号（同法第四十三条ノ十六第二項において例による場合を含む。）の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。
With regard to the payment period of injury and sickness allowance for which the payment period prescribed in Article 47 of the Health Insurance Act prior to its amendment by this Act expired before the day this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
この法律の施行の日前にこの法律による改正前の健康保険法第四十七条に規定する支給期間が満了した傷病手当金の支給期間については、なお従前の例による。