The date on which this Act comes into effect is specified by Imperial Order.

①The Industrial Accident Mutual Assistance Insurance Act is repealed.

②The payment of insurance proceeds for any accident that occurred prior to the enforcement of this Act and the premiums for any period prior to the enforcement of this Act is continued to be governed by the former Act.

③The punishment for any person to whom the penal provisions of the former Act prior to the enforcement of this Act should have been applied is continue to be governed by the former Act.

④At the time of the enforcement of this Act, the premiums that have already been paid by a person who has an insurance contract with the government for industrial accident mutual assistance insurance for any period after the enforcement of this Act may be appropriated for premiums of this insurance.

⑤In addition to what is prescribed in the preceding three paragraphs, any necessary matters upon the repeal of the former Act are prescribed by order.

②The surviving family members eligible to receive a lump sum payment for the difference of disability compensation pension are those prescribed in the following items. In this case, the order of priority of the surviving family members who are to receive the lump sum payment for the difference of disability compensation pension is decided in accordance with the order set forth in the following items, and among those specified in these items, the order as set forth in the respective items:

③The right to receive the payment of a differential lump-sum payment of disability compensation pension is extinguished by prescription when five years have elapsed from the time when it becomes exercisable.

④With regard to a lump sum payment for the difference of disability compensation pension, the provisions of Article 10 apply by deeming it to be compensation benefits for surviving family, and the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (3) and Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Premiums Collection Act apply by deeming it to be a lump sum compensation for surviving family to be paid in the case referred to in Article 16-6, paragraph (1), item (ii).

⑤The provisions of Article 16-3, paragraph (2) and Article 16-9, paragraphs (1) and (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the lump sum payment for the difference of disability compensation pension. In this case, the term the "preceding paragraph" and "appended table 1" in Article 16-3, paragraph (2) are respectively deemed to be replaced with "Article 58, paragraph (1)" and "that paragraph".

①The government, unless otherwise provided for by law, in cases where a worker gets injured or fall ill in the course of their duties and remains physically disabled when the worker has recovered, pays an advance lump sum payment for disability compensation pension with respect to the disability, as insurance proceeds, to the person having the right to receive a disability compensation pension based on their claim.

②The amount of an advance lump sum payment for disability compensation pension is the amount specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, corresponding to the grade of disability pertaining to the relevant disability compensation pension prescribed in the left-hand column of the table in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, up to the maximum amount of those prescribed in the right-hand column of that table (when a claim set forth in the preceding paragraph is filed in or after August of the fiscal year two years after the fiscal year of the day on which the grounds for calculation occurred, the amounts to be obtained where the basic daily payment amount to be obtained by deeming the advance lump sum payment for disability compensation pension to be a lump sum payment for disability compensation and applying the provisions of Article 8-4 thereto is regarded as the basic daily payment amount in that table).

③Where an advance lump sum payment for disability compensation pension is made, the payment of a disability compensation pension pertaining to the disability of the worker is suspended for the period until the total amount payable each month reaches the amount of the advance lump sum payment for 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 for disability compensation pension is deemed to be the disability compensation pension, and the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (3) and Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Premiums Collection Act apply thereto.

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.

①The government, until otherwise provide for by law, in cases where a worker dies due to the reason in the course of their duties, pay an advance lump sum payment for compensation pension for surviving family with respect to the death, as insurance proceeds, to the surviving family members having the right to receive a compensation pension for surviving family based on their claims.

②The amount of the advance lump sum payment for compensation pension for surviving family is the amount specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, up to the maximum amount equivalent to the basic daily payment amount for 1,000 days (in cases where a claim set forth in the preceding paragraph is filed in or after August of the fiscal year two years after the fiscal year of the day on which the grounds for calculation occurred, the amount equivalent to the basic daily benefit amount to be obtained by deeming the advance lump sum payment for compensation pension for surviving family to be a lump sum compensation for surviving family and applying the provisions of Article 8-4 thereto.)

③Where an advance lump sum payment for compensation pension for surviving family is to be made, the payment of a compensation pension for surviving family pertaining to the death of the worker is suspended for the period until the total amount payable each month reaches the amount of the advance lump sum payment for compensation pension for surviving family, in accordance with the calculation method specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

④With respect to the application of the provisions of Article 16-6 in cases where an advance lump sum payment for compensation pension for surviving family is to be made, the term the "amount of the compensation pension for surviving family" in paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with the "amount of the compensation pension for surviving family and the amount of the advance lump sum payment for compensation pension for surviving family (in cases where the grounds for payment of the advance lump sum payment for compensation pension for surviving family occurred in or before July of the fiscal year of the day on which the right was extinguished (in cases where the month of the day on which the right was extinguished is April, May, June or July, the previous fiscal year), the amount obtained by making a calculation in accordance with the method of calculating the amount of the compensation pension for surviving family under the provisions of the following paragraph as provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)".

⑤The right to receive the payment of an advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family is extinguished by prescription when two years have elapsed from the time when it becomes exercisable.

⑥The advance lump sum payment for compensation pension for surviving family is deemed to be a compensation pension for surviving family, and the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (3) and Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Premiums Collection Act apply thereto.

⑦While the payment of the compensation pension for surviving family to be paid to a person who has received an advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family is suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), the provisions of Article 36-2, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act and Article 65, paragraph (2) 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, and the provisos to Article 13-2, paragraph (1), item (i) and paragraph (2), item (i) of the Child Rearing Allowance Act do not apply to that compensation pension for surviving family.

①For the time being, if a person who has the right to receive a disability pension for multiple-job workers dies, and the total amount of the amount of the disability pension for multiple-job workers paid to the person (for the disability pension for multiple-job workers paid, out of that disability pension for multiple-job workers, as the payment for the period up to July of the fiscal year to which the date of the death belongs (if the month to which the date of the death belongs is any of the months from April through July, the previous fiscal year; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 16-6, paragraph (2)) and the amount of the advance lump-sum payment of disability pension for multiple-job workers pertaining to that disability pension for multiple-job workers (if the grounds for paying that advance lump-sum payment of disability pension for multiple-job workers occurred in or before July of the fiscal year to which the date of the death belongs, the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in accordance with the method of calculating the amount of the compensation pension for surviving family under the provisions of that paragraph) is less than the amount set forth in the right-hand column of the table in Article 58, paragraph (1) corresponding to the grade of disability pertaining to that disability pension for multiple-job workers set forth in the left-hand column of that table (if the date of the death is on or after August 1 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 amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 8-3, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 8-4 were used as the basic daily payment amount in that table), the government pays to the surviving family members of that person, based on their claim, a differential lump-sum payment of disability pension for multiple-job workers in the amount equivalent to the difference, as insurance proceeds.

②The provisions of Article 16-3, paragraph (2), Article 16-9, paragraphs (1) and (2), and Article 58, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the differential lump-sum payment of disability pension for multiple-job workers. In this case, the term "preceding paragraph" in Article 16-3, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 60-2, paragraph (1)", and the term "Appended Table 1" is deemed to be replaced with "that paragraph".