In the case under paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, if a business operator employing the number of workers specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare or less has taken the measures specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to secure safety or health of the workers employed for the business during any insurance year of three consecutive insurance years, and the business operator submits a written application stating the intention to apply for the application of the provision of this Article in respect of the industrial accident insurance rate pertaining to the business and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare within six months from the first day of the insurance year following any insurance year during which the measures were taken, then the provisions of the same paragraph apply to the industrial accident insurance rate prescribed in the same paragraph for the insurance year two years following the last insurance year of the consecutive three insurance years, by replacing the term "forty one-hundredth (40/100)" in the same paragraph with "forty-five one-hundredth (45/100)."
前条第三項の場合において、厚生労働省令で定める数以下の労働者を使用する事業主が、連続する三保険年度中のいずれかの保険年度においてその事業に使用する労働者の安全又は衛生を確保するための措置で厚生労働省令で定めるものを講じたときであつて、当該措置が講じられた保険年度のいずれかの保険年度の次の保険年度の初日から六箇月以内に、当該事業に係る労災保険率につきこの条の規定の適用を受けようとする旨その他厚生労働省令で定める事項を記載した申告書を提出しているときは、当該連続する三保険年度中の最後の保険年度の次の次の保険年度の同項の労災保険率については、同項中「百分の四十」とあるのは、「百分の四十五」として、同項の規定を適用する。
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