This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding three months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 1 amending Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act (limited to the part pertaining to the table in that paragraph), the provisions of Article 2 amending Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Mariners Insurance Act, the provisions amending Article 59 of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to pension insurance premium rates), the provisions adding one Article after Article 59 of that Act, the provisions amending Article 59-2 of that Act, the provisions amending Article 60 of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to pension insurance premium rates), the provisions amending paragraphs (12) and (13) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, the provisions amending paragraphs (18) through (20) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and the provisions of Articles 9 through 12 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of October 1, 1984; the provisions of Article 1 adding two Articles to the Supplementary Provisions of the Health Insurance Act, the provisions of Article 2 adding three paragraphs to the Supplementary Provisions of the Mariners Insurance Act, the provisions of Article 3 adding five paragraphs to the Supplementary Provisions of the National Health Insurance Act, the provisions of Article 46 of the Supplementary Provisions amending Article 12 of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 128 of 1958), the provisions of Article 48 of the Supplementary Provisions adding one Article after Article 17 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 152 of 1962), and the provisions of Article 50 of the Supplementary Provisions amending Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 245 of 1953) and amending the table in that paragraph (excluding the part pertaining to the entry for Article 126-5, paragraph (2)) come into effect as of April 1, 1985; the provisions of Article 2 amending Article 59-3 of the Mariners Insurance Act come into effect as of October 1 of the same year; the provisions of Article 1 amending Article 13, item (ii) of the Health Insurance Act and the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of April 1, 1986; and the provisions of Article 1 amending Article 43-14, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act and adding one Article before Article 44-2 (limited to the part pertaining to Article 44, paragraph (11) of that Act), the provisions of Article 3 amending Article 50, paragraph (1) of the National Health Insurance Act, the provisions amending Article 53 of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to paragraph (9) of that Article) and the provisions adding two Sections after Article 81 in Chapter V of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to Articles 81-9 through 81-12), and the provisions of Article 61 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the provisions amending Article 14 of the Social Insurance Council and Social Insurance Medical Council Act (Act No. 47 of 1950)) come into effect as of the date of promulgation.

①Of persons who acquired eligibility as an insured person under health insurance before October 1, 1984 and who continue to hold eligibility as an insured person until that day (excluding persons who hold eligibility as an insured person pursuant to the provisions of Article 20 of the Health Insurance Act), the standard remuneration amount of a person who acquired eligibility as an insured person during the period from July 1 to September 30 of that year, or whose standard remuneration amount was revised from August or September of that year pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (4) of that Act, and whose standard monthly remuneration for the same month of the same year is 64,000 yen or less, is revised by the insurer by deeming the monthly remuneration amount that was the basis of that standard monthly remuneration to be the monthly remuneration amount that is the basis of the standard remuneration amount under the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Revised Health Insurance Act").

②The standard remuneration amount revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to be the standard remuneration amount for the period from October 1, 1984 to September 30, 1985.

With regard to persons employed at a place of business listed in Article 13, item (ii) of the Revised Health Insurance Act who are employed at a place of business other than a place of business at which five or more employees work regularly, the provisions of that Article (including where applied under Article 14, Articles 16 through 18, Article 20, paragraph (1), Article 21, Article 31, Article 55, paragraph (2) (including where applied mutatis mutandis in Article 55-2, paragraph (2), Article 57, paragraph (2) and Article 59-2, paragraph (7)) and Article 69-7 of that Act) are to be applied in stages, as specified by Cabinet Order, until March 31, 1989.

①With regard to the amount of medical expenses under the provisions of the Health Insurance Act pertaining to medical care, medication or treatment given before the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②With regard to the payment of high-cost medical expenses or dependent's high-cost medical expenses under the provisions of the Health Insurance Act prior to amendment by this Act pertaining to medical care, medication or treatment given before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③The provisions of Article 58, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Revised Health Insurance Act (including where these provisions apply mutatis mutandis in Article 69-31 of the Revised Health Insurance Act) apply to a person who is to receive injury and sickness allowance under the provisions of the Health Insurance Act and for whom the day on which the person became entitled to receive disability pension or disability allowance under the provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 115 of 1954) in respect of the same sickness or injury and any sickness caused thereby is on or after the Effective Date.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 79-11 of the Revised Health Insurance Act to the estimated day laborer contributions for fiscal year 1984, the phrase "insurance premiums for specially-insured day laborers paid in the preceding fiscal year" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "insurance premiums paid in fiscal year 1983 under the provisions of the Day Laborers Health Insurance Act (Act No. 207 of 1953) as it stood before its repeal".

The Day Laborers Health Insurance Act (Act No. 207 of 1953) is repealed.

②With regard to an application for the issuance of the day laborer health insurance insured person handbook prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Former Day Laborers Health Insurance Act by a person who became an insured person pursuant to the provisions of Article 6 of the Former Day Laborers Health Insurance Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern. In this case, that application is deemed to be the application prescribed in Article 69-9, paragraph (1) of the Revised Health Insurance Act.