Long-Term Care Insurance Act

When a person that has received a Long-Term Care Benefit, etc. fails to report pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (2) or submits a false report, or fails to reply or submits a false reply to questions of the personnel pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph or to questions pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (2) of an employee of a Designated and Entrusted Juridical Person for Prefectural Affairs entrusted pursuant to the provisions of Article 24-3, paragraph (1), said person is punished by a fine of 300,000 yen or less.

When corresponding to any item of the following, a person that commits said violation is fined an amount not to exceed 300,000 yen:

when a person violates the provisions of Article 95;

when a person violates the provisions of Article 99, paragraph (2) of this Act or Article 9, paragraph (2) of the Medical Care Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 105 of this Act;

when a person violates the provisions of Article 109;

when a person violates the provisions of Article 113, paragraph (2) of this Act or Article 9, paragraph (2) of the Medical Care Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 114-8 of this Act.

When a person, without justifiable cause, fails to report pursuant to the provisions of Article 201-3, paragraph (1) or submits a false report, or, without justifiable cause, fails to reply or submits a false reply to questions of the personnel pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, or, without justifiable cause, refuses, interrupts, or evades an inspection pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, the person who committed the violation is punished by a fine of 300,000 yen or less.

A person that fails to appear, fails to submit a statement, fails to submit a report or submits a false statement or report, or fails to perform a diagnosis or other investigation in violation of the actions pursuant to the provisions of Article 194, paragraph (1), is fined an amount not to exceed 200,000 yen, however, provided that this provision does not apply to an applicant of procedures of an examination conducted by a Certification Committee for Insurance, a Municipality which is notified pursuant to the provisions of Article 193, or other interested person.

The crimes set forth in Article 205-3 also apply to a person who has committed the crimes set forth in that Article outside Japan.

Where the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply to an Association or foundation without legal personality, in addition to the representative or manager of the Association or foundation without legal personality representing it in its litigation acts, the provisions of laws concerning criminal procedure in the case where a juridical person is the accused or suspect apply mutatis mutandis.

When a person fails to keep Financial Statements, etc., fails to enter the matters to be entered in Financial Statements, etc., or submits a false entry in violation of the provisions of Article 69-19, paragraph (1), or refuses a demand pursuant to the provisions of any item of paragraph (2) without justifiable cause, said person is punished by a fine of an amount not to exceed 200,000 yen.

In a case that falls under any one of the following items, an officer of the Organization that committed said violation is punished by a non-penal fine of 200,000 yen or less:

in a case when said person is required to obtain the authorization or approval of the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of this Act, when said person fails to obtain said authorization or approval;

when a person invests surplus funds of a business in violation of the provisions of Article 170.

When a person that has provided In-Home Service, etc., or a person that employs said person fails to report or present pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) or submits a false report, or fails to reply or submits a false reply to the questions of said personnel pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph or to questions pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) of an employee of a Designated and Entrusted Juridical Person for Prefectural Affairs entrusted pursuant to the provisions of Article 24-3, paragraph (1), said person is punished by a non-penal fine of 100,000 yen or less.

A person that violates the provisions of Article 69-7, paragraph (6) or paragraph (7) is punished by a non-penal fine in an amount not to exceed 100,000 yen.

A Municipality, when a Primary Insured Person fails to provide a notification pursuant to the provisions of the main clause of Article 12, paragraph (1) (except for a case when the householder of said family of said Primary Insured Person resides, fails to provide a notification pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the same Article) or provides a false notification, may enact a provision to punish said offender by a non-penal fine in an amount not to exceed 100,000 yen.

A Municipality may enact by ordinance a provision to punish by a non-penal fine in an amount not to exceed 100,000 yen a person that fails to respond to a request to submit a Certificate of Insured Person pursuant to the provisions of the second sentence of Article 30, paragraph (1), second sentence of Article 31, paragraph (1), Article 33-3, paragraph (1), second sentence of Article 34, paragraph (1), second sentence of Article 35, paragraph (6), Article 66, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), or Article 68, paragraph (1).

A Municipality, when an Insured Person, the spouse of an Insured Person, the householder of the family where an Insured Person resides, or other person that belongs to that family, or a person that was any of these, without justifiable cause fails to act in compliance with an order to submit or present documents or other items pursuant to the provisions of Article 202, paragraph (1) or fails to reply or submits a false reply to the questions asked by said personnel pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, may enact by Municipal Ordinance a provision to punish said person by a non-penal fine of 100,000 yen or less.

A Municipality may enact by ordinance a provision to a person that was exempted from the collection of an insurance premium and other levies pursuant to the provisions of this Act (except for the payment and the delinquent charge as prescribed in Article 157, paragraph (1)) to punish said person by non-penal fine in an amount not to exceed the amount equivalent to five times the amount that was exempted from said collection.

The provisions of Article 255-3 of the Local Autonomy Act apply mutatis mutandis to actions of non-penal fines pursuant to the provisions of the respective preceding paragraphs.

An Association, pursuant to the provisions of a constitution, may collect a fine for default in an amount not to exceed 100,000 yen with respect to the use of said facility (limited to Business Relevant to A Long-Term Care Insurance Project).