Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act

The purposes of the industrial accident compensation insurance are to pay necessary insurance proceeds to protect workers who are injured, fall ill or are disabled, or die, in a prompt and fair manner, which are caused in the course of their duties, by reasons attributable to the work of two or more businesses of a worker employed by two or more businesses whose employers are not the same person (hereinafter referred to as a "multiple-job worker"), or while commuting to or from work, and to promote the social reintegration of workers into society who are injured or fall ill in the course of their duties, by reasons attributable to the work of two or more businesses of a multiple-job worker, or while commuting to or from work, in order to provide support to those workers and their surviving family members and secure the safety and health of workers or the like, thereby contributing to the promotion of the welfare of such workers.

The government administers industrial accident compensation insurance.

Industrial accident compensation insurance, in order to achieve the purposes set forth in Article 1, is paid to support the projects to promote social reintegration of workers into society in addition to pay insurance proceeds to workers for their injury, illness, disability or death or the like caused in the course of their duties, by reasons attributable to the work of two or more businesses of a multiple-job worker, or while commuting to or from work.

①In this Act, the insurance covers businesses that hire workers.

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, this Act does not apply to businesses managed directly by the State and businesses managed by public agencies (excluding the businesses specified in Appended Table 1 of the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 49 of 1947)).

Cabinet Orders and Orders of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under this Act and Cabinet Orders and Orders of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (limited to those pertaining to industrial accident compensation insurance services) under the Act on the Collection of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance (Act No. 84 of 1969; hereinafter referred to as the "Premiums Collection Act") are established after hearing the opinions of the Labour Policy Council as to drafts thereof.

The establishment and extinguishment of relationships between the insured businesses and the worker's accident insurance are governed by the provisions of the Premiums Collection Act.

①The insurance proceeds under this Act are those prescribed below:

②The commuting referred to in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph means that workers travel to or from work by choosing the efficient route and means as prescribed below, excluding commuting which has the nature of their duties:

③Where a worker deviates from the travel route referred to in each item of the preceding paragraph or discontinues the travel referred to in each item of that paragraph, traveling during the deviation or discontinuation or any subsequent travel set forth in each item of that paragraph are not deemed as commuting referred to in paragraph (1), item (iii); provided, however, that this does not apply if the deviation or discontinuation is required to carry out an activity necessary for daily life, which are the basic needs specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare due to unavoidable circumstances, except during the period of the deviation or stoppage en route.

①The basic daily payment amount is the amount equivalent to the average wage referred to in Article 12 of the Labor Standards Act. In this case, the day on which the grounds to calculate the average wage occurred referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article is the day on which the accident which caused the injury or death as prescribed in paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the preceding Article occurs, or the date on which the occurrence of an illness prescribed in items (i) through (iii) of that paragraph was confirmed by making a diagnosis (hereinafter referred to as "the date on which the grounds for calculation occurred").

②When it is deemed inappropriate to pay the amount equivalent to the average wage referred to in Article 12 of the Labor Standards Act as the basic daily payment amount, the amount calculated by the government pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is deemed to be the basic daily payment amount, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the basic daily payment amount in the case where insurance proceeds are paid to a multiple-job worker, their surviving family members or other persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for injury, illness, disability or death of the multiple-job worker caused in the course of their duties, by reasons attributable to the work of two or more businesses of the multiple-job worker, or while the multiple-job worker is commuting to or from work, is the amount calculated by the government pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the sum of the amounts equivalent to the basic daily payment amounts calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs for each business that employs the multiple-job worker.

①The basic daily payment amount for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work used as the basis for calculation of compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers or payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work (hereinafter referred to as the "compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, etc." in this Article) (hereinafter referred to as "basic daily payment amount for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work" in this Article) is provided as follows:

②If the date on which grounds for compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, etc. occurred is later than the date on which one year and six months have elapsed from the date of the commencement of medical treatment pertaining to the compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, etc., if a worker falls under any of the cases set forth in the following items, the amount specified in the respective items is deemed to be the basic daily payment amount for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph:

③The amount specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in item (i) of the preceding paragraph is to be specified each year for each age group pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare taking the employment conditions and other circumstances of workers of the relevant age group into account, by classifying all workers of their age group into twenty groups according to the amount of monthly wage they receive (hereinafter referred to as "monthly wage" in this paragraph) by using the amount of highest monthly wage received by the worker of the group receiving the lowest amount of monthly wage as the basis for the calculation of such amount.

④The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the amount specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in paragraph (2), item (ii). In this case, the term "pertaining to the lowest amount of monthly wage" in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "of the group of the second highest amount of monthly wage".

①The basic daily payment amount used as the basis for the calculation of payment of employees' pension insurance proceeds (hereinafter referred to as the "basic daily pension benefit amount" in this Article) is provided as follows;

②The provisions of paragraphs (2) through (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the basic daily pension benefit amount. In this case, the term "the date on which grounds for compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, etc. occurred is later than the date on which one year and six months have elapsed from the date of the commencement of medical treatment pertaining to the compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, etc." in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "there are grounds for payment of employees' pension insurance proceeds", the term the "preceding paragraph" is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of the following Article", and the term "basic daily payment amount for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work" is deemed to be replaced with "basic daily pension benefit amount"; the term "compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, etc." in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "payment of employees' pension insurance proceeds", the term "the date on which the grounds for payment occurred" is deemed to be replaced with the "month in which the payment is to be made", the term "the first day of the quarter (in the following item" is deemed to be replaced with "August 1 of the fiscal year (if the relevant month is any of the months from April through July, August 1 of the fiscal year before that fiscal year; hereinafter in this paragraph", and the term "age of" is deemed to be replaced with the "age (if the compensation pension for surviving family, the pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers or the survivors pension is to be paid, the age of the worker on the base date that would be obtained if calculated assuming that the death of the worker pertaining to the grounds for payment did not occur; the same applies in the following item) of"; and the term "compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, etc." in item (ii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "payment of employees' pension insurance proceeds".

The provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the basic daily payment amount used as the basis of calculation of the disability compensation lump-sum payment, lump-sum compensation payment for surviving family, disability lump-sum payment for multiple-job workers, lump-sum payment for surviving family of multiple-job workers, disability lump-sum payment or lump-sum payment for surviving family. In this case, the term "to be paid in the three-month period" and the "month in which the payment is to be made" in that paragraph are respectively deemed to be replaced with the "grounds for the payment occurred" and the "month in which the grounds for the payment occurred".

When finding a fraction of the basic daily payment amount of less than one yen, such fraction is rounded up to one yen.

①Payment of employees' compensation insurance proceeds is to commence in the month following the month in which the grounds for payment occurred and is to terminate in the month in which the right to receive payment is extinguished.

②If the grounds for suspending the payment have occurred, employees' pension insurance proceeds is not be paid from the month following the month in which the grounds occurred to the month in which the grounds cease to exist.

③Employees' compensation insurance proceeds are paid six times a year, in February, April, June, August, October and December of each year, for the previous month and the relevant month; provided, however, that in cases where the right to receive the payment is extinguished, the employees' pension insurance proceeds for the relevant two-months period is to be paid even if either of them is not the month of insurance proceeds payment.

If it is not known for three months whether a worker who was on board a vessel when it sank, capsized, was lost or went missing or who was on board a vessel and went missing during its navigation is dead or alive, or if the death of such worker becomes apparent within three months but the time of death is not known, the worker shall, with respect to the application of the provisions relating to the payment of compensation benefits for surviving family, funeral service fee, survivors benefits and funeral rite benefits, presuming that the worker has died on the date on which the vessel sank, capsized, was lost or went missing or on the date on which the worker went missing. The same applies in the cases where it is not known for three months whether a worker who was on board an aircraft when it crashed, was lost or went missing or who was on board an aircraft and went missing during its flight is dead or alive, or where the death of such worker becomes apparent within three months but the time of death is not known.

①If a person who has the right to receive payment of insurance proceeds under this Act dies and any payment of the insurance proceeds payable to the deceased person remains unpaid, their spouse (including a person who did not register the marriage but has been in a de facto marital relationship with the deceased person; the same applies hereinafter), children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents or siblings who makes a living together with the deceased person at the time of their death (in the case of the compensation pension for surviving family, other surviving family members eligible to receive the survivor compensation pension, in the case of the pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers, other surviving family members eligible to receive the pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers, and in the case of the pension for surviving family, other surviving family members eligible to receive the pension for surviving family) may claim payment of the unpaid insurance proceeds in their own names.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the deceased person had not claimed payment of insurance proceeds before their death, those persons prescribed in that paragraph may claim payment of the insurance proceeds in their own names.

③The order of priority of those who are to receive any unpaid insurance proceeds depends on the order prescribed in paragraph (1) (in the case of the compensation pension for surviving family, the order priority depends on the order prescribed in Article 16-2, paragraph (3), in the case of the pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers, the order prescribed in Article 16-2, paragraph (3), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 20-6, paragraph (3), and in the case of the pension for surviving family, the order prescribed in Article 16-2, paragraph (3), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22-4, paragraph (3)).

④If there are two or more persons who hold the same rank in the order of priority of persons who are to receive any unpaid insurance proceeds, a claim made by one of the relevant persons is deemed to have been made on behalf of all relevant persons for the total amount, and a payment made to one of the relevant persons is deemed to have been made to all relevant persons.

①When, even though the grounds to suspend the payment of employees' pension insurance proceeds occurred, any employees' pension insurance proceeds have been paid for the period in which the payment should have been suspended, the insurance proceeds which have been paid may be deemed to be an advance payment of the employees' pension insurance proceeds which are to be paid after that period. Despite the fact that the grounds for changing the amount of insurance proceeds by reducing its amount have occurred, the insurance proceeds of which amount is not reduced have been paid for the period from the month following the month in which the grounds occurred, the same applies to the amount of the insurance proceeds should have been reduced.

②Where a worker who has the right to receive employees' pension insurance proceeds (excluding the compensation pension for surviving family, the pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers and the pension for surviving family; hereinafter referred to as "Pension B" in this paragraph) has become eligible to receive other employees' pension insurance proceeds (excluding the compensation pension for surviving family, the pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers and the pension for surviving family; hereinafter referred to as "Pension A" in this paragraph) for the same injury or illness caused in the course of their duties, by reasons attributable to the work of two or more businesses of a multiple-job worker, or while commuting to or from work (hereinafter referred to as the "same illness or injury" in this Article), and the right to receive Pension B has been extinguished, if Pension B has been paid for the period from the month following the month in which the relevant right was extinguished, that payment of Pension B is deemed to be an advanced payment of Pension A. If a worker who has the right to receive payment of employees' pension insurance proceeds (excluding the compensation pension for surviving family, the pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers and the pension for surviving family) is eligible for the compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers or payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, or a disability compensation lump-sum payment, a disability lump-sum payments for multiple-job workers or a lump-sum payment for disability for the same illness or injury, and the right to receive the employees' pension insurance proceeds has been extinguished, the same applies if the employees' pension insurance proceeds have been paid for the period as the payment for the month after the month in which the relevant right was extinguished.

③If, for the same illness or injury, a worker receiving the compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, the payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers or the payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work has the right to receive a disability compensation benefit or an illness or injury compensation pension, a disability benefit for multiple-job workers or an illness or injury pension for multiple-job workers, or a disability benefit or an illness or injury pension, and it was decided that the compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers or payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work would not be paid, if the compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers or payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work is continued to be paid to the worker thereafter, such compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers or payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work paid is deemed to be an advanced payment of the disability compensation benefit or illness or injury compensation pension, disability benefit for multiple-job workers or illness or injury pension for multiple-job workers, or disability benefit or illness or injury pension.

If a person who has the right to receive the payment of insurance proceeds has died, and despite the fact that the right to receive the payment is extinguished, employees' pension insurance proceeds have been overpaid for the period after the month in which the date of the death is recorded, if there are any insurance proceeds that are to be paid to the person who is to perform obligations under the claim for the return of monies that has resulted from the overpayment (hereinafter referred to as the "claim for the return of monies" in this Article), the amount of payment under the insurance proceeds may be appropriated as the amount of the claim for the return of monies that resulted from the overpayment, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①When a worker has intentionally caused an accident which is the direct cause of injury, illness, disability or death, the government does not pay insurance proceeds.

②When a worker has, by an intentional criminal act or gross negligence or by not following directions as to medical treatment without any just cause, caused an injury, illness, disability or death or an accident that was the cause thereof, or progressed the stage of injury, illness or disability or hindered their recovery, the government may decide not to pay the whole or a part of the insurance proceeds.

①When a person has received insurance proceeds by deception or other wrongful means, the government may collect the amount equivalent to the cost for the payment of the insurance proceeds in whole or in part from the person.

②In the cases referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the insurance proceeds was paid due to a false report or certification submitted by an employer (in cases where an original contractor is deemed to be an employer pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the Premiums Collection Act, the original contractor; the same applies hereinafter), the government may order the employer to pay the money to be collected as set forth in the preceding paragraph jointly and severally with the person who has received the insurance proceeds.

③The provisions of Article 27, Article 29, Article 30 and Article 41 of the Premiums Collection Act apply mutatis mutandis to the money to be collected pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.

①When the government has paid insurance proceeds in cases where an accident which is the cause of payment of insurance proceeds is caused by an act of a third party, the government acquires the right to claim compensation for damages held by the person who has received the insurance proceeds against the third party, at a maximum of the payment amount thereof.

②In the cases referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the person who are to receive insurance proceeds has received compensation for damages for the same reason from the third party, the government may decide not to pay the insurance proceeds, at a maximum of the amount of the compensation.

①The right to receive insurance proceeds will not be affected by the retirement of the worker.

②The right to receive insurance proceeds may not be assigned, offered as security or seized.

Taxes and other public charges may not be imposed on the basis of money and goods received as payment of insurance proceeds.

A person who has the right to receive insurance proceeds must, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, notify the government of the particulars necessary for the payment of insurance proceeds specified by Orderance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, or submit the necessary documents for the payment of insurance proceeds or other items specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①The payment of insurance proceeds for an occupational accident set forth in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i) is the payment of insurance proceeds specified in the following:

②The insurance proceeds set forth in the preceding paragraph (excluding the illness or injury compensation pension and the nursing care compensation benefits), where the reason for compensation for accident prescribed in Article 75 through Article 77, and Article 79 and Article 80 of the Labor Standards Act or the reason for compensation for accident prescribed in Article 89, paragraph (1), Article 91, paragraph (1), the main clause of Article 92, Article 93 and Article 94 of the Mariners Act (Act No. 100 of 1947) (with regard to Article 91, paragraph (1) of that Act, limited to the part equivalent to the reason for compensation for accident prescribed in Article 76, paragraph (1) of the Labor Standards Act) have occurred, are paid to a worker or surviving family members who are to receive compensation or to a person who holds the funeral, based on their claims.

③A compensation benefit for workers who get injured or sick is paid to a worker who get injured or fall ill in the course of their duties when the worker falls under all of the following items on the day on which one year and six months have elapsed from the commencement of medical treatment for the injury or illness, or falls under all of the following items after that day, and the compensation benefit is l paid to the worker during the period when the worker suffers from the injury or illness:

④Nursing care compensation benefits are paid to a worker who has the right to receive a disability compensation benefit or illness or injury compensation benefit, based on their claim, when the worker having disability requires constant or occasional nursing care and is receiving constant or occasional nursing care service due to the disability which is the reason for the disability compensation benefit or illness and injury compensation benefit, due to the degree of disability specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and such compensation benefits are paid during the period when the worker is receiving the nursing care service (excluding the following periods):

①The medical treatment compensation benefits is paid for medical treatment.

②The coverage of the medical treatment benefit set forth in the preceding paragraph is as prescribed in the following items (limited to those that are considered necessary by the government):

③The government may, where it is difficult to pay the medical treatment benefit set forth in paragraph (1) and in other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, pay the medical treatment expenses instead of the medical treatment benefit.

①The compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work is paid from the fourth day since a worker does not receive wages because the worker is unable to work in order to receive medical treatment for an injury or illness caused in the course of their duties, and the amount of compensation per day is the amount equivalent to 60 percent of the basic daily payment amount; provided, however, that the amount of the compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for days on which a worker works for a portion of the regular working hours due to medical treatment for an injury or illness caused in the course of their duties or leave for which wages are paid (hereinafter referred to as a "partial calculation day" in this paragraph), or for a partial calculation day of a multiple-job worker, is the amount equivalent to 60 percent of the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the wages to be paid for the partial calculation day from the basic daily payment amount (in cases where the amount prescribed in Article 8-2, paragraph (2), item (ii) (hereinafter referred to as the "maximum amount" in this paragraph) is regarded as the basic daily payment amount, the basic daily payment amount to be paid on the assumption that the provision of that item does not apply) (in cases where the amount after the deduction exceeds the maximum amount, the amount equivalent to the maximum amount).

②When a worker who receives compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work is, for the same reason, eligible to receive either a employee's disability pension under the provisions of the Employee's Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 115 of 1954) or a disability basic pension under the provisions of the National Pension Act (Act No. 141 of 1959), the amount of the compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work to be paid to the worker, notwithstanding the provision of the preceding paragraph, is the amount obtained by multiplying the amount set forth in that paragraph, pursuant to the provisions of items (i) through (iii) of Appended Table 1, by the rate for the illness or injury compensation pension amongst the rates specified by Cabinet Order set forth in items (i) through (iii) of that table (in cases where such amount is less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order, the amount specified by Cabinet Order).

No compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work is paid if a worker falls under any of the following items (limited to cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare):

①The disability compensation benefits is paid either as a disability compensation pension or a lump-sum payment for disability, in accordance with the grades of disability specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

②The amounts of a disability compensation pension or a lump sum compensation payment for disability is as prescribed respectively in Appended Table 1 or Appended Table 2.

Where there has been a change to the degree of the relevant degree of the disability of a worker receiving a disability compensation pension, and as a result of such change, the worker falls under another grade of disability prescribed in Appended Table 1 or Appended Table 2, the government is to, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, pay the disability compensation pension or lump sum compensation payment for disability corresponding to the new grade of disability under which the worker now falls, and does not pay the former disability compensation pension thereafter.

Compensation benefits for surviving family is to be paid as either a compensation pension for surviving family or a lump sum compensation for surviving family.

①The surviving family members who are eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family is a worker's spouse, children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents, and siblings who were dependent on the worker's income at the time of their death; provided, however, that in the case of those other than a wife (including a person who did not register marriage but has been in a de facto marital relationship with the worker; the same applies hereinafter), this applies only where they have satisfied the requirements prescribed in any of the following items at the time of the worker's death:

②When a child who was an unborn baby at the time of a worker's death is born, the child, with respect to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, is deemed, from then on, as a child who was dependent on the worker's income at the time of the worker's death.

③The order of priority of surviving family members who are to receive a compensation pension for surviving family is given to the spouse first, and then to children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings.

①The amount of a compensation pension for surviving family is the amount prescribed in appended table 1.

②If there are two or more persons who has the right to receive a compensation pension for surviving family, the amount of the compensation pension for surviving family, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, is the amount obtained by dividing the amount prescribed in appended table 1 by the number of persons concerned.

③If there has been an increase or decrease in the number of the surviving family members which is to be used as the basis for calculating the amount of a compensation pension for surviving family, the amount of the compensation pension for surviving family is changed from the month after the month in which the increase or decrease occurred.

④Where the surviving family member who has the right to receive a compensation pension for surviving family is the worker's wife, and there are no other surviving family members eligible to receive the compensation pension for surviving family who share the cost of living with the wife, if the wife falls under any of the following items, the amount of the compensation pension for surviving family is changed from the month after the month in which the wife falls under the respective items:

①The right to receive a compensation pension for surviving family is extinguished when a surviving family member having the right falls under any of the following items. In this case, when there is no person holding the same rank in the order of priority but there is a person(s) holding a lower rank, the compensation pension for surviving family is paid to the person(s) who holds the next rank:

②When a surviving family member eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family falls under any of the items of the preceding paragraph, the member cease to be a surviving family member eligible to receive the compensation pension for surviving family.

①When the whereabouts of a person who has the right to receive a compensation pension for surviving family is unknown for not less than one year, the payment of the compensation pension for surviving family is suspended for as long as those whereabouts are unknown, upon the request filed by a person who holds the same rank in the order of priority if there is any such person, or upon the request filed by a person who holds the next rank in the order of priority if there is no person holding the same rank. In this case, if there is no person holding the same rank, the person who holds the next rank is the person with the first rank during that period.

②A surviving family member whose payment of the compensation pension for surviving family is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may request for revocation of the suspension of the payment at any time.

③The provisions of Article 16-3, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis where the payment of the compensation pension for surviving family is suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or where the suspension of the payment is revoked pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "month in which the increase or decrease occurred" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with the "month in which the payment is suspended or the suspension of the payment is revoked."

①A lump sum compensation for surviving family is paid in the following cases:

②When the total amount of a compensation pension for surviving family prescribed in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph is calculated, with regard to the amount of the compensation pension for surviving family paid for a period before July of the fiscal year of the date on which the right prescribed in that item is extinguished (in cases where the month of the date on which the right is extinguished is any of the months from April to July, the previous fiscal year; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), the amount is calculated according to the amount obtained by multiplying the amount actually paid by the rate specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the rate obtained by dividing the average salary for the fiscal year before the fiscal year of the date on which the right is extinguished by the average salary for the fiscal year one year before the fiscal year of the months for which the compensation pension for surviving family is paid (in cases where the relevant month is either April, May, June or July, the fiscal year two years before).

①The surviving family members who are eligible to receive a lump sum compensation for surviving family are the persons specified in the following items:

②The order of priority for the surviving family members who are to receive a lump sum compensation for surviving family is decided in accordance with the order set forth in each of the items of the preceding paragraph, and among the persons specified in items (ii) and (iii) of that paragraph, the order set forth in the respective items applies.

①The amount of a lump sum compensation payment for surviving family is the amount prescribed in appended table 2.

②The provisions of Article 16-3, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of the lump sum compensation payment for surviving family. In this case, the term "appended table 1" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "appended table 2".

①A person who intentionally causes the death of a worker is not be regarded as a surviving family member who is eligible to receive compensation benefits for surviving family.

②A person who, before the death of a worker, intentionally causes the death of a person holding a higher or the same rank in the order of priority as a surviving family member who is eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family as a result of the worker's death, is not be regarded as a surviving family member who is eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family.

③A person who has intentionally causes the death of a surviving family member who is eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family is not regarded as a surviving family member who is eligible to receive a lump sum compensation payment for surviving family. The same applies to a person who, before the death of a worker, intentionally causes the death of a person who is to become a surviving family member eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family as a result of the worker's death.

④When a surviving family member who is eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family intentionally causes the death of another surviving family member holding a higher or the same rank in the order of priority as a surviving family member who is eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family, that surviving family member is not regarded as a surviving family member who is eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family. In this case, if that surviving family member is a person having the right to receive a compensation pension for surviving family, the relevant right is extinguished.

⑤In the case referred to in the second sentence of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of the second sentence of Article 16-4, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis.

The amount of funeral service fee is the amount specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of the cost normally required for funeral.

①The amount of an illness and injury compensation pension is as prescribed in appended table 1 in accordance with the grades of illness or injury specified in Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 12-8, paragraph (3), item (ii).

②Compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work is not paid to a person who receives an illness or injury compensation pension.

Where there has been a change in the degree of the relevant degree of disability of a worker receiving an illness or injury compensation pension, and as a result of such change, that person falls under another grade of illness or injury prescribed in appended table 1, the government, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, pays the illness or injury compensation pension corresponding to the new grade of illness or injury under which the person now falls, and does not pay the former illness or injury compensation pension thereafter.

Where a worker who gets injured or fall ill in the course of their duties receives an illness or injury compensation pension on the day when three years have elapsed after the commencement of medical treatment pertaining to the illness or injury, or begins to receive an illness or injury compensation pension after that day, with respect to the application of the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Labor Standards Act, the relevant employer is deemed to have received a compensation for discontinuance pursuant to the provisions of Article 81 of the Labor Standards Act on the day when three years have elapsed or on the day when the worker begins to receive the illness or injury compensation pension, respectively.

Nursing care compensation benefits is to be paid monthly, and the monthly amount is the amount specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of the expenses normally required for receiving constant or occasional nursing care.

In addition to what is prescribed in this Section, the particulars necessary for payment of insurance proceeds in respect of an occupational accidents are prescribed in Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour & Welfare.

The payment of insurance proceeds for a multiple-job-related accident set forth in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) is the payment of insurance proceeds specified in the following:

①Where a multiple-job worker gets injured or falls ill (limited to diseases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) due to the work of two or more businesses in which the multiple-job worker is engaged, medical treatment benefits for multiple-job workers are paid to the multiple-job worker based on their claim.

②The provisions of Article 13 apply mutatis mutandis to medical treatment benefits for multiple-job workers.

①Where a multiple-job worker does not receive wages because of their inability to work due to medical treatment pertaining to an injury or illness caused by the work of two or more businesses in which the multiple-job worker is engaged, payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers is paid to the multiple-job worker based on their claim.

②The provisions of Article 14 and Article 14-2 apply mutatis mutandis to payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers. In this case, the term "a worker ... in the course of their duties" in Article 14, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "a multiple-job worker ... caused by the work of two or more businesses in which the multiple-job worker is engaged", and the term "in accordance with the cases prescribed in items (i) through (iii) of Appended Table 1, by the rate for an illness or injury compensation pension amongst the rates specified by Cabinet Order set forth in items (i) through (iii) of that table" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "in accordance with the cases prescribed in items (i) through (iii) of Appended Table 1 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 20-8, paragraph (2), by the rate for an illness or injury pension for multiple-job workers amongst the rates specified by Cabinet Order set forth in items (i) through (iii) of that table".

①Where a multiple-job worker gets injured or falls ill due to the work of two or more businesses in which the multiple-job worker is engaged and remains physically disabled after recovery, a disability benefit for multiple-job workers is paid to the multiple-job worker based on their claim.

②In accordance with the grades of disability specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 15, paragraph (1), disability benefits for multiple-job workers are paid in the form of a disability pension for multiple-job workers or a disability lump-sum payment for multiple-job workers.

③The provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2) and Article 15-2 as well as the provisions of Appended Table 1 (limited to the parts pertaining to the disability compensation pension) and Appended Table 2 (limited to the parts pertaining to the disability compensation lump-sum payment) apply mutatis mutandis to disability benefits for multiple-job workers. In this case, the terms "disability compensation pension" and "disability compensation lump-sum payment" in these provisions are deemed to be replaced with "disability pension for multiple-job workers" and "disability lump-sum payment for multiple-job workers", respectively.

①Where a multiple-job worker dies due to the work of two or more businesses in which the multiple-job worker is engaged, benefits for surviving family of multiple-job workers are paid to the surviving family members of the multiple-job worker based on their claims.

②The benefits for surviving family of multiple-job workers are paid in the form of a pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers or a lump-sum payment for surviving family of multiple-job workers.

③The provisions of Article 16-2 through Article 16-9 as well as the provisions of Appended Table 1 (limited to the parts pertaining to the compensation pension for surviving family) and Appended Table 2 (limited to the parts pertaining to the lump-sum compensation payment for surviving family) apply mutatis mutandis to benefits for surviving family of multiple-job workers. In this case, the terms "compensation pension for surviving family" and "lump-sum compensation payment for surviving family" in these provisions are deemed to be replaced with "pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers" and "lump-sum payment for surviving family of multiple-job workers", respectively.

①Where a multiple-job worker dies due to the work of two or more businesses in which the multiple-job worker is engaged, a funeral benefit for multiple-job workers is paid to the person who holds the funeral based on their claim.

②The provisions of Article 17 apply mutatis mutandis to the funeral benefit for multiple-job workers.

①An illness or injury pension for multiple-job workers is paid to a multiple-job worker who gets injured or falls ill due to the work of two or more businesses in which the multiple-job worker is engaged, when the multiple-job worker falls under all of the following items on the day on which one year and six months have elapsed after the commencement of medical treatment pertaining to the injury or illness, or comes to fall under all of the following items after that day, and such payment is made for the period during which that condition continues:

②The provisions of Article 18 and Article 18-2 as well as the provisions of Appended Table 1 (limited to those parts pertaining to the illness or injury compensation pension) apply mutatis mutandis to an illness or injury pension for multiple-job workers. In this case, the term "compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work" in Article 18, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers", and the term "illness or injury compensation pension" in that table is deemed to be replaced with "illness or injury pension for multiple-job workers".

①The nursing care benefit for multiple-job workers is paid to a multiple-job worker who has the right to receive a disability pension for multiple-job workers or an illness or injury pension for multiple-job workers, based on their claim, when the multiple-job worker is in a physical condition requiring constant or occasional nursing care and is receiving constant or occasional nursing care due to a disability which is the reason for the disability pension for multiple-job workers or illness or injury pension for multiple-job workers which the multiple-job worker has the right to receive and whose degree is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 12-8, paragraph (4), and such payment is made during the period while the multiple-job worker is receiving the nursing care (excluding the following periods):

②The provisions of Article 19-2 apply mutatis mutandis to nursing care benefits for multiple-job workers.

In addition to what is prescribed in this Section, the particulars necessary for insurance proceeds in respect of a multiple-job-related accident are prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The insurance proceeds in respect of commuting accidents set forth in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (iii) are the insurance proceeds specified as follows:

①Where a worker gets injured or falls ill (limited to diseases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) while commuting to or from work (meaning commuting as set forth in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (iii); the same applies hereinafter), medical treatment benefits are paid to the worker based on their claim.

②The provisions of Article 13 apply mutatis mutandis to medical treatment benefits.

①Where a worker does not receive wages because of their inability to work due to medical treatment pertaining to an injury or illness caused while commuting to or from work, compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work benefits is to be paid to the worker based on their claim.

②The provisions of Article 14 and Article 14-2 apply mutatis mutandis to compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work. In this case, the term "in the course of their duties" in Article 14, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "while commuting to or from work" and the term "in accordance with the cases prescribed in items (i) through (iii) of appended table 1, by the rate for an illness or injury compensation pension amongst the rates specified in Cabinet Order set forth in items (i) to (iii) of that table" in paragraph (2) of that Article is be deemed to be replaced with "in accordance with the cases prescribed in items (i) through (iii) of appended table 1 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (2), by the rate for an illness or injury compensation pension amongst the rates specified in Cabinet Order set forth in items (i) through (iii) of that table."

③The amount of compensation or loss of salary during a temporary absence from work to be paid to a worker receiving medical treatment benefits (excluding persons specified in Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as set forth in Article 31, paragraph (2)) pertaining to the first day on which the grounds for payment occurred, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, is the amount obtained by deducting the amount equivalent to the amount specified in Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 31, paragraph (2) from the amount set forth in Article 14, paragraph (1).

①Where a worker gets injured or falls ill while commuting to or from work and remains physically disabled after recovery, a disability benefit is paid to the worker based on their claim.

②Disability benefits are paid in the form of disability pension or a lump sum payment for disability, in accordance with the grades of disabilities specified in Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 15, paragraph (1).

③The provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2) and Article 15-2 as well as the provisions of appended table 1 (limited to the parts pertaining to the disability compensation pension) and appended table 2 (limited to the parts pertaining to the lump sum compensation payment for disability) apply mutatis mutandis to disability benefits. In this case, the term "disability compensation pension" and "lump sum payment for disability" in these provisions are respectively deemed to be replaced with "disability pension" and " lump sum payment for disability ".

①Where a worker dies while commuting to or from work, benefits for surviving family is paid to the worker's surviving family members based on their claims.

②Benefit for surviving family is paid in the form of a survivor pension or lump sum payment for surviving family.

③The provisions of Articles 16-2 to Article 16-9 as well as the provisions of appended table 1 (limited to the parts pertaining to the compensation pension for surviving family) and appended table 2 (limited to the parts pertaining to the lump sum compensation for surviving family) apply mutatis mutandis to benefits for surviving family. In this case, the term "compensation pension for surviving family" and "lump sum compensation for surviving family" in these provisions are respectively deemed to be replaced with "pension for surviving family" and "lump sum payment for surviving family".

①Where a worker dies while commuting to or from work, funeral service fee is paid to the person who holds the funeral based on their claim.

②The provisions of Article 17 apply mutatis mutandis to payment of funeral service fee.

①An illness or injury pension is paid to a worker who gets injured or fall ill while commuting to or from work, when the person falls under all of the following items on the day on which one year and six months have elapsed after the commencement of medical treatment pertaining to the illness or injury, or falls under all of the following items after that day, and such payment is made for the period during which the relevant illness or injury continues to exist:

②The provisions of Article 18 and Article 18-2 as well as the provisions of appended table 1 (limited to those parts pertaining to the illness or injury compensation pension) apply mutatis mutandis to an illness or injury pension. In this case, the term "compensation payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work " in Article 18, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work", and the term "illness or injury compensation pension" in that table is deemed to be replaced with "illness or injury pension".

①Nursing care benefit is paid to a worker who has the right to receive a disability pension or an illness or injury pension, based on their claim, when the worker is in a physical condition requiring constant or occasional nursing care and is receiving constant or occasional nursing care due to a disability which is the cause for the payment of that disability pension or illness or injury pension which the worker has the right to receive and whose degree of disability is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 12-8, paragraph (4), and such payment is made during the period while the worker is receiving the nursing care(excluding the following periods):

②The provisions of Article 19-2 apply mutatis mutandis to nursing care benefits.

In addition to what is prescribed in this Section, necessary particulars necessary for payment of insurance proceeds in respect of a commuting accident are prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①Follow-up medical examination expenses is paid to a worker, based on their claim, where the worker has, in their most recent medical examination conducted pursuant to the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Health and Safety Act (Act No. 57 of 1972) or a medical examination pertaining to the medical examination conducted pursuant to the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (5) of that Article (hereinafter referred to as an "initial medical examination" in this paragraph), undergone blood pressure tests or blood tests or other tests concerning physical conditions related to the occurrence of a cerebrovascular disease or heart disease caused in the course of their duties, which are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the worker who has undergone these tests is diagnosed as those showing abnormalities for all items of the medical test (excluding workers who, based on the results of the initial medical examination or for other reasons, obviously have symptoms of cerebrovascular disease or heart disease).

②The coverage of follow-up medical examination is as follows:

③With regard to workers who, based on the results of a follow-up medical examination or for other reasons, obviously have symptoms of a cerebrovascular disease or heart disease, the government does not give specific health guidance pertaining to the follow-up medical examination.

With respect to the application of the provisions of Article 66-4 of the Industrial Health and Safety Act to an employer (meaning an employer prescribed in Article 2, item (iii) of that Act) who has received, from a worker who has undergone a follow-up medical examination, a document certifying the results of the follow-up medical examination within a period specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare not exceeding three months from the day of the follow-up medical examination, the term the "results of the medical examinations... (limited to the results of the medical examinations" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with the "results of the medical examination and the follow-up medical examination prescribed in Article 26, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act... (limited to the results of these medical examinations".

In addition to what is prescribed in this Section, the necessary particulars for the payment of follow-up medical examination, etc. are prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①The government may undertake the following projects as the project to promote social reintegration of workers into society for workers engaged in businesses covered by this insurance and their surviving families:

②Standards necessary for the implementation of the projects specified in the items of the preceding paragraph are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

③The government is to have the Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safety perform, among the project to promote social reintegration of workers into society set forth in paragraph (1), those specified in Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safety, Independent Administrative Agency (Act No. 171 of 2002).

The premiums to be collected by the government to cover the costs necessary for industrial accident compensation insurance services are governed by the provisions of the Premiums Collection Act.

①When the government pays insurance proceeds for an accident which falls under any of the following items, it may collect from the employer, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the whole or a part of the amount of money equivalent to the amount incurred to pay the insurance benefits, up to the limit of, in the case of insurance proceeds in respect of an occupational accident, the value of accident compensation under the provisions of the Labor Standards Act or the value of accident compensation under the provisions of the Mariners Act which is equivalent to accident compensation under the provisions of the Labor Standards Act, up to the limit of, in the case of insurance proceeds in respect of a multiple-job-related accident, the value of accident compensation under the provisions of that Act equivalent to the insurance proceeds for an occupational accident payable where the multiple-job-related accident is deemed to be an occupational accident (limited to the amount calculated for each business pertaining to that multiple-job-related accident), and up to the limit of, in the case of insurance proceeds for a commuting accident, the value of accident compensation under the provisions of that Act equivalent to the insurance proceeds for an occupational accident payable where a commuting accident is deemed to be an occupational accident:

②The government collects an amount specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare not exceeding two hundred yen, from a worker who receives medical treatment benefits (excluding workers specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) as the worker's co-payment; provided, however, that this does not apply to a worker who receives payment for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work at an amount reduced pursuant to the provisions of Article 22-2, paragraph (3).

③The government may, as an appropriation to the co-payment set forth in the preceding paragraph, which is collected from the worker set forth in that paragraph, deduct an amount equivalent to the co-payment from the amount of the insurance proceeds to be paid to the worker, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

④The provisions of Article 27, Article 29, Article 30 and Article 41 of the Premiums Collection Act apply mutatis mutandis to the money collected under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2).

The national treasury may subsidize part of the costs necessary for industrial accident compensation insurance services, within the budget.

The occupational accident, multiple-job-related accident and commuting accident of the persons specified in the following items (in the case of persons specified in items (ii), (iv) or (v), excluding those who are workers) are governed by the provisions of this Chapter:

①When an employer set forth in item (i) of the preceding Article files a claim for persons specified in that item and in item (ii) of that Article collectively as persons eligible to receive insurance proceeds for the occupational accident, multiple-job-related accident or commuting accident covered by this insurance based on the relationship established between this insurance and the relevant business, and the approval of the government has been given, the application of the provisions of Chapter III, Sections 1 to 3 and Chapter III-2 is provided as follows:

②The employer set forth in item (i) of the preceding Article may, even after the approval set forth in the preceding paragraph is given, decide not to designate the persons specified in that item and item (ii) of that Article collectively as persons eligible to receive insurance proceeds, with the approval of the government.

③The government may, when an employer set forth in item (i) of the preceding Article violates the provisions of this Act or the Premiums Collection Act or Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under these Acts, revoke the approval set forth in paragraph (1).

④The right to receive insurance proceeds of the persons specified in items (i) and (ii) of the preceding Article is not affected by the approval under the provisions of paragraph (2) or the revocation of the approval set forth in paragraph (1) pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. The same applies where these persons have ceased to be the persons specified in items (i) and (ii) of that Article.

①When an association of persons set forth in Article 33, item (iii) or an association of persons set forth in item (v) of that Article has filed a claim to have this insurance apply to occupational accidents, multiple-job-related accidents and commuting accidents occurred to the persons set forth in item (iii) of that Article who are members of the association and to persons set forth in item (iv) of that Article related to those persons or to persons set forth in item (v) of that Article who are members of the association (limited to occupational accidents and multiple-job-related accidents in the case of persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare among those specified above in consideration of the situation while traveling between their residence and workplace or the like), and the approval of the government has been given, the application of the provisions of Chapter III, Sections 1 through 3 (with regard to the persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Sections 1 through 2-2 of that Chapter) and Chapter III-2 of this Act and Chapters II through VI of the Premiums Collection Act are provided as follows:

②A person who, as a person specified in any of items (iii) through (v) of Article 33, is deemed to be a worker pursuant to the provisions of item (iii) of the preceding paragraph in respect of one association, is not, in terms of the same kind of business or the same kind of work, also deemed to be a worker pursuant to the provisions of that item in respect of another association.

③An association set forth in paragraph (1) may, even after the approval set forth in that paragraph has been given, may extinguish the relationship between this insurance and the association, with the approval of the government.

④The government may, when an association set forth in paragraph (1) violates the provisions of this Act, the Premiums Collection Act, or Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under these Acts, may extinguish the relationship between this insurance and the association.

⑤The right to receive insurance proceeds of persons specified in Article 33, items (iii) through (v) is not affected by the withdrawal of the persons specified in item (iii) or (v) of that Article from the association set forth in paragraph (1). The same applies where any of the persons specified in items (iii) through (v) of that Article cease to be a person specified in the respective items.

①When an association referred to in Article 33, item (vi) or an employer referred to in item (vii) of that Article files a claim for a person specified in item (vi) or (vii) of that Article as a person eligible to receive insurance proceeds for an occupational accident, multiple-job-related accident or commuting accident covered by this insurance, based on the relationship between this insurance and the insured business (excluding businesses for which the period of business is predetermined) carried out by the association or employer in the area where this Act is enforced, and the approval of the government has been given, the application of the provisions of Chapter III, Sections 1 through 3 and Chapter III-2 is provided as follows:

②The provisions of Article 34, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to an association referred to in Article 33, item (vi) or an employer referred to in item (vii) of that Article that has obtained the approval of the government set forth in the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of Article 34, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the right of a person specified in Article 33, item (vi) or (vii) to receive insurance proceeds. In this case, the term the "approval referred to in the preceding paragraph" and the "approval referred to in paragraph (1)" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with the "approval referred to in Article 36, paragraph (1)", and the term "the persons specified in that item and item (ii) of that Article collectively" in Article 34, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with a "person specified in items (vi) or (vii) of that Article", and the term "items (i) and (ii) of that Article" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 33, item (vi) or (vii)".

In addition to what is prescribed in this Chapter, the necessary matters in respect of the occupational accident, multiple-job-related accident and commuting accident occurred to persons specified in the items of Article 33 are prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①A person who is dissatisfied with a decision on insurance proceeds may file a request for administrative review with an industrial accident compensation insurance examiner, and a person who is dissatisfied with a decision by the examiner may file a request for re-examination with the Labor Insurance Appeal Committee.

②A person who has filed a request for administrative review set forth in the preceding paragraph may, when no decision on the request for administrative review is made even after three months have elapsed from the day on which the request was filed, deem that the industrial accident compensation insurance examiner has dismissed the request for administrative review.

③With regard to the suspension of completion and renewal of prescription, the request for administrative review and the request for re-examination set forth in paragraph (1) is deemed to be a demand by litigation.

The provisions of Chapter II (excluding Article 22) and Chapter IV of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014) do not apply to the request for administrative review or the request for re-examination set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.

No action for revocation of original administrative disposition prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) may be filed until a decision is made by the industrial accident compensation insurance examiner on the request for administrative review of the disposition.

①The right to receive medical treatment compensation benefits, compensation payments for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, funeral service fees, nursing care compensation benefits, medical treatment benefits for multiple-job workers, payments for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers, funeral benefit for multiple-job workers, nursing care benefits for multiple-job workers, medical treatment benefits, payments for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, funeral benefits, nursing care benefits and payment for follow-up medical examination is extinguished by prescription when two years have elapsed from the time when it becomes exercisable, and the right to receive disability compensation benefits, compensation benefits for surviving family, disability benefits for multiple-job workers, benefits for surviving family of multiple-job workers, disability benefits and benefits for surviving family is extinguished by prescription when five years have elapsed from the time when it becomes exercisable.

②Where, due to the revision of the average salary for each quarter under the provisions of Article 8-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) or the average salary for a fiscal year under the provisions of Article 8-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has changed the rate specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 8-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 8-3, paragraph (1), item (ii) or Article 16-6, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 20-6, paragraph (3) or Article 22-4, paragraph (3), and cases where that provision is to be followed pursuant to the provisions of Article 58, paragraph (1), Article 60-2, paragraph (1) or Article 61, paragraph (1)), or the government has changed the amount calculated by the government prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (2), and there are insurance proceeds whose amount has been recalculated as a result of that change, the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Public Accounting Act (Act No. 35 of 1947) do not apply to the right to receive payment of unpaid insurance proceeds under the provisions of Article 11 pertaining to those insurance proceeds.

The provisions of the Civil Code concerning the computation of a period of time apply mutatis mutandis to the computation of a period of time prescribed in this Act or by Cabinet Orders and Orders of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under this Act.

No stamp tax is imposed on documents related to industrial accident compensation insurance.

The mayor of a municipality (including the mayor of a special ward, and with regard to a designated city set forth in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), the mayor of a ward or the mayor of an administratively consolidated ward) may, pursuant to the provisions of a municipal ordinance of the relevant municipality (including a special ward), issue a certificate with no charge, in respect of the family register of a person or surviving family member seeking to receive insurance proceeds, to the administrative agency concerned or the person seeking to receive insurance proceeds.

An administrative agency may, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order a person who hires workers, a labor insurance affairs association, an association prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1), a client entity prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985; referred to as the "Worker Dispatching Act" in Article 48, paragraph (1)) (hereinafter referred to as a "client entity"), or a person who receives the services of a dispatched mariner prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (13) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act (Act No. 130 of 1948) (hereinafter referred to as a "dispatched mariner"), to make a report, submit a document or appear as necessary for the enforcement of this Act.

An administrative agency may, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order a worker hired for a business in which the relationship between the insured business and this insurance has been established (including a person who is deemed to be a worker hired for that business pursuant to the provisions of Article 34, paragraph (1), item (i), Article 35, paragraph (1), item (iii) or Article 36, paragraph (1), item (i)) or a person who receives or seeks to receive insurance proceeds, to make a report, make a notification, or submit a document or other articles (hereinafter referred to as a "report, etc." in this Article) or to appear in its office as necessary for the enforcement of this Act, or may order a third party who caused an accident which was the cause of insurance proceeds (excluding a client entity and a person who receives the services of a dispatched mariner; hereinafter referred to as a "third party" in Article 53) to make a report, etc.

An administrative agency may, when it finds it necessary for the payment of insurance proceeds, order a person who receives or seeks to receive insurance proceeds (including the person who is the basis of calculation of the amount of a compensation pension for surviving family, a pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers or a pension for surviving family) to undergo a diagnosis by a doctor designated by the agency.

The government may temporarily suspend the payment of insurance proceeds when a person having the right to receive insurance proceeds, without any reasonable grounds, fails to make a notification or submit a document or other items pursuant to the provisions of Article 12-7 or fails to comply with an order issued pursuant to the provisions of preceding two Articles.

①An administrative agency may, to the extent necessary for the enforcement of this Act, have its officials enter the workplace of the insured business, the office of a labor insurance affairs association or of an association prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1), the workplace of the business of a client entity prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act, or the workplace of a person who receives the services of a dispatched mariner, question relevant persons or inspect books and documents or other items.

②An official who conducts an on-site inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must carry an identification card and present it to the relevant persons.

③The authority to conduct on-site inspections under the provisions of paragraph (1) must not be construed as the authority granted for criminal investigations.

①An administrative agency may, when it finds it necessary for the payment of insurance proceeds, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order the doctor or other person who takes charge of the medical examination of a person who receives or seeks to receive insurance proceeds (including the person who is the basis of calculation of the amount of a compensation pension for surviving family, pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers or pension for surviving family), to submit a report or medical records, books and documents or other items related to the matters concerning the medical examination, or may have its officials inspect these items.

②The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the inspection under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when the Minister finds it necessary in order to achieve the purposes of this Act with regard to mariners prescribed in Article 1 of the Mariners Act, request the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to take necessary measures based on the Mariners Act.

②When the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism finds it necessary in order to take the measures under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister may request the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to provide materials.

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, with regard to the enforcement of this Act, request the relevant administrative organs or public or private organizations to provide materials or other necessary cooperation.

②The relevant administrative organs or public or private organizations requested to cooperate pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must meet requests to the fullest extent possible.

Where Cabinet Order or Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is established, amended or abolished under this Act, necessary transitional measures may be provided for by Cabinet Order or Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, respectively, to the extent considered reasonably necessary for such establishment, amendment or abolition.

The authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed by this Act may, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, be partially delegated to the Directors of the Prefectural Labor Bureaus.

The details concerning the enforcement of this Act are prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

When an employer, a client entity or a person who receives the services of a dispatched mariner falls under any of the following items, that person is punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 300,000 yen. When a labor insurance affairs association or an association prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1) falls under any of these items, the same applies to the representative, agent or employee or other worker of the labor insurance affairs association or the association, who committed the violation:

When a person other than an employer, labor insurance affairs association, association prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1), client entity or person who receives the services of a dispatched mariner (excluding a third party) falls under any of the following items, that person is punished by imprisonment of not more than six months or a fine of not more than 200,000 yen:

①When a representative of a juridical person (including labor insurance affairs associations and associations prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1) which are not juridical persons; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) or an agent, employee or any other worker for a juridical person or an individual, with regard to the business of the juridical person or individual, commits a violation set forth in Article 51 or the preceding Article, not only the offender is punished but also the juridical person or individual is punished by the fine prescribed in the respective Articles.

②Where a labor insurance affairs association or an association prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1) which is not a juridical person is punished pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the representative of the labor insurance affairs association or association represents the labor insurance affairs association or association in conducting procedural acts, and the provisions of Acts concerning criminal proceedings in cases where a juridical person is an accused or a suspect apply mutatis mutandis to such cases.