Supplementary Provisions, Article 16
第十六条
With regard to a worker who receives Type I disability compensation, or illness or injury benefits or Type I disability benefits, under the provisions of the new Act, the government, for the time being, pursuant to the provisions of order, if the average salary per worker for all industries in the Monthly Labor Statistics prepared by the Ministry of Labour (hereinafter referred to as the "average salary" in this paragraph) has come to exceed 120 percent, or to fall below 80 percent, of the average salary in the year to which the day on which the worker was injured or contracted the illness belongs, and the government finds that this situation will continue, revises the amount of those insurance proceeds (excluding the portion concerning medical treatment or medical treatment expenses pertaining to Type II illness or injury benefits) for April of the following year onward, based on the rate of that increase or decrease, and pays them. The same applies to the revision of the amount of Type I disability compensation, or illness or injury benefits (excluding the portion concerning medical treatment or medical treatment expenses pertaining to Type II illness or injury benefits) or Type I disability benefits, after revision.
新法の規定による第一種障害補償費又は傷病給付若しくは第一種障害給付を受ける労働者については、政府は、当分の間、命令で定めるところにより、労働省において作成する毎月勤労統計における全産業の労働者一人当りの平均給与額（以下この項において「平均給与額」という。）が当該負傷し、又は疾病にかかつた日の属する年における平均給与額の百分の百二十をこえ、又は百分の八十を下るに至つた場合において、その状態が継続すると認めるときは、その上昇し、又は低下した比率を基準として、その翌年の四月以降の当該保険給付（第二種傷病給付に係る療養又は療養の費用に関する部分を除く。）の額を改訂して支給する。改訂後の第一種障害補償費又は傷病給付（第二種傷病給付に係る療養又は療養の費用に関する部分を除く。）若しくは第一種障害給付の額の改訂についてもこれに準ずる。
The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the amount to be deducted from the annual amount of illness or injury benefits or Type I disability benefits under the provisions of the new Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions.