①For the time being, with regard to the disability in the case where a worker gets injured or falls ill in the course of their duties and remains physically disabled after recovery, the government pays an advance lump-sum payment of disability compensation pension, as insurance proceeds, to a person who has the right to receive a disability compensation pension, based on their claim.

②The amount of an advance lump-sum payment of disability compensation pension is the amount specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, up to the limit of the amount set forth in the right-hand column of the table in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article corresponding to the grade of disability pertaining to the relevant disability compensation pension set forth in the left-hand column of that table (if the claim set forth in the preceding paragraph is made in or after August of the year after the next fiscal year of the fiscal year to which the date on which the grounds for calculation occurred belongs, the amount that would be obtained if the basic daily payment amount obtained when the provisions of Article 8-4 are applied by deeming that advance lump-sum payment of disability compensation pension to be a disability compensation lump-sum payment were used as the basic daily payment amount in that table).

③If an advance lump-sum payment of disability compensation pension is paid, the payment of the disability compensation pension pertaining to the disability of the worker is suspended until the total amount of the amounts to be paid for each month reaches the amount of the advance lump-sum payment of disability compensation pension in accordance with the calculation method specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

④The right to receive the payment of an advance lump-sum payment of disability compensation pension is extinguished by prescription when two years have elapsed from the time when it becomes exercisable.

⑤An advance lump-sum payment of disability compensation pension is deemed to be a disability compensation pension for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (3) and Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Premiums Collection Act.

⑥While the payment of a disability compensation pension to be paid to a person who has received an advance lump-sum payment of disability compensation pension is suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), the provisions of Article 36-2, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act, Article 65, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act prior to its amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as "Act No. 34 of 1985" in this paragraph and paragraph (7) of the following Article) (hereinafter referred to as the "former National Pension Act" in this paragraph and paragraph (7) of the following Article), which is deemed to remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (11) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 34 of 1985 (including the cases where it is followed pursuant to Article 28, paragraph (10) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 34 of 1985 and the cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 79-2, paragraph (5) of the former National Pension Act which is deemed to remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (11) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 34 of 1985; the same applies in paragraph (7) of the following Article), the proviso to Article 13-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Child Rearing Allowance Act (Act No. 238 of 1961), and the provisos to Article 3, paragraph (3), item (ii) and Article 17, item (i) of the Act on Special Child Rearing Allowance (Act No. 134 of 1964) do not apply to that disability compensation pension.