Supplementary Provisions, Article 15Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Health Insurance Act, etc.
第十五条(健康保険法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置)
An insurer (meaning the insurer prescribed in Article 4 of the Health Insurance Act) may, in the case prescribed in the first sentence of Article 51-3, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 5, if it finds it necessary, for the time being, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, ex officio, deliver to an insured person, as provided by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph, a document stating the matters specified by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in that paragraph, or provide those matters by the electronic or magnetic means prescribed in that paragraph.