Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act

A business other than those set forth in the following items that is specified by Cabinet Order is, for the time being, not a covered business under Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2:

a business prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 2;

a business conducted by, or a business pertaining to the work performed by, a person set forth in Article 33, item (iii) or (v) of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act among the persons to whom the provisions of Article 35, paragraph (1), item (iii) of that Act apply (including a business that the person conducts by continuing to employ workers after the provisions of Article 35, paragraph (1), item (iii) of that Act have ceased to apply to the person), which falls under agriculture (including livestock and sericulture businesses).

The businesses specified by Cabinet Order referred to in the preceding paragraph are voluntarily covered businesses.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 3 of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance in the case where a business that falls under a voluntarily covered business under Article 12, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Unemployment Insurance Act and the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 5 (excluding a business for which the labor insurance relationship between the insured business and the workers' accident insurance prescribed in Article 3 of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance (Act No. 84 of 1969) (hereinafter referred to as the "relationship between the insured business and the workers' accident insurance") has been established pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) or (3) or Article 6 of the Act on the Re-arrangement of Relevant Acts Necessitated by the Enforcement of the Unemployment Insurance Act, the Act for Partially Revising the Workers' Accident Compensation Insurance Act and the Act on the Collection, etc. of the Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance (Act No. 85 of 1969; hereinafter referred to as the "1969 Re-arrangement Act before the item (ii) amendment") prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 18 of the Supplementary Provisions) comes to fall under a business covered by the insurance under Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act, the phrase "commenced" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "came to fall under a business covered by the insurance under that paragraph".

With regard to an injury or illness sustained in the course of duties, an injury or illness attributable to the work of two or more businesses of a multiple-job worker, or an injury or illness incurred while commuting to or from work, that occurred before the item (ii) effective date and occurred before the establishment of the relationship between the insured business and the workers' accident insurance, the provisions of Articles 18 through 20 of the 1969 Re-arrangement Act before the item (ii) amendment remain in force on and after the item (ii) effective date. In this case, if an application by an employer under the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1), Article 18-2, paragraph (1) or (2), or Article 18-3, paragraph (1) or (2) of the 1969 Re-arrangement Act before the item (ii) amendment is filed on or after the item (ii) effective date, the phrase "after the establishment of the relationship between the insured business and the workers' accident insurance" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "at the time of the application".