①For the time being, a person listed in item (i) or (ii) who is employed at an applicable place of business other than a specified applicable place of business (meaning an applicable place of business prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (3) of the Health Insurance Act, excluding such an applicable place of business of the national government or a local government; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) and who does not fall under any of the items of paragraph (1) of that Article (excluding a person to whom the provisions of that paragraph (limited to the part pertaining to item (ix)) do not apply pursuant to the preceding Article; hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "specified under-three-quarters part-time worker") is not to be an insured person covered by health insurance, notwithstanding that paragraph and Article 8-3-2, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to a specified under-three-quarters part-time worker employed at an applicable place of business that has ceased to be a specified applicable place of business; provided, however, that this does not apply if the employer of that applicable place of business has, in accordance with the cases listed in the following items, obtained the consent specified respectively in those items and made a request to the insurer, etc. (meaning the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in the case of health insurance administered by the Japan Health Insurance Association, and the health insurance society in the case of health insurance administered by a health insurance society; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) to the effect that the provisions of that paragraph are to apply to that specified under-three-quarters part-time worker.

③The request under the proviso to the preceding paragraph must, in the case of an employer who may make the request under the proviso to that paragraph pursuant to the provisions of the proviso to Article 17, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, be made at the same time as that request.

④When a request under the proviso to paragraph (2) has been made, the specified under-three-quarters part-time worker (limited to a person who has eligibility as an insured person covered by health insurance) loses eligibility as an insured person covered by health insurance on the day following the day on which that request is accepted.

⑤An employer of an applicable place of business other than a specified applicable place of business (including an applicable place of business that employs a specified under-three-quarters part-time worker to whom the provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply pursuant to the main clause of paragraph (2)) may, in accordance with the cases listed in the following items, obtain the consent specified respectively in those items and make a request to the insurer, etc. to the effect that the provisions of that paragraph do not apply to the specified under-three-quarters part-time workers employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer.

⑥The request in the preceding paragraph must, in the case of an employer who may make the request under that paragraph pursuant to the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions, be made at the same time as that request.

⑦When a request under paragraph (5) has been made, the provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply to the specified under-three-quarters part-time worker on or after the day on which that request is accepted. In this case, with respect to the application of the provisions of Article 35 of the Health Insurance Act to that specified under-three-quarters part-time worker, the phrase "the day on which the person has become an employee of an applicable place of business, the day on which the place of business employing the person has become an applicable place of business, or the day on which the provisions of the proviso to Article 3, paragraph (1) are no longer applicable" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the day on which the request under Article 46, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System (Act No. 62 of 2012) has been accepted".

⑧An employer who has made the request under paragraph (5) may, in accordance with the cases listed in the following items, obtain the consent specified respectively in those items and make a request to the insurer, etc. to the effect that the employer is to be subject to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) with respect to the specified under-three-quarters part-time workers employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer; provided, however, that this does not apply if an applicable place of business of the employer falls under a specified applicable place of business.

⑨The request in the preceding paragraph must, in the case of an employer who may make the request under that paragraph pursuant to the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (8) of the Supplementary Provisions, be made at the same time as that request.

⑩When a request under paragraph (8) has been made, the specified under-three-quarters part-time worker (limited to a person who has eligibility as an insured person covered by health insurance) loses eligibility as an insured person covered by health insurance on the day following the day on which that request is accepted.

⑪The affairs related to the authority of an insurer, etc. (limited to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare) to accept a request pursuant to the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (2), paragraph (5) and paragraph (8) are to be conducted by the Japan Pension Service. In this case, in Article 23, paragraph (3) of the Japan Pension Organization Act, the phrase ", the Mariners Insurance Act" is deemed to be replaced with "or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System (Act No. 62 of 2012), the Mariners Insurance Act"; in Article 26, paragraph (2) of that Act, the phrase "the Health Insurance Act" is deemed to be replaced with "the Health Insurance Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System"; in Article 27, paragraph (2), item (ii) of that Act, the phrase "affairs related to the authority prescribed in, and that Act" is deemed to be replaced with "and affairs related to the authority prescribed in Article 46, paragraph (2) (proviso), paragraph (5) and paragraph (8) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System, the Health Insurance Act", and the phrase "及び" (and) in that item is deemed to be replaced with "並びに" (and, joining the larger group); and in Article 48, paragraph (1) of that Act, the phrase "the Health Insurance Act" is deemed to be replaced with "the Health Insurance Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System".

⑫In this Article, a specified applicable place of business means each applicable place of business among one or more applicable places of business of the same employer for which the total number of specified workers employed at those one or more applicable places of business regularly exceeds 50.