Article 30

①A Municipality, when it is determined that an Insured Person that was issued a Certification of Needed Long-Term Care, qualifies for a Category of Condition of Need for Long-Term Care other than the Category of Condition of Need for Long-Term Care pertaining to said Certification of Needed Long-Term Care due to a lowering of the degree of necessity of long-term care, may certify a change of Category of Condition of Need for Long-Term Care. In this case, the Municipality is to request the Insured Person pertaining to said change of certification to submit said Certificate of Insured Person, shall enter the Category of Condition of Need for Long-Term Care pertaining to said change of certification and the opinion of the Certification Committee pursuant to the provisions of the second sentence of Article 27, paragraph (5) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following paragraph (limited to those changes pertaining to matters listed in item (ii) of the same paragraph), and then return said Certificate of Insured Person to the Insured Person.

②The provisions of Article 27, paragraphs (2) to (6), the first sentence of paragraph (7), and Article 28, paragraphs (5) to (8) apply mutatis mutandis to a Certification of Change of Category of Condition of Need for Long-Term Care as prescribed in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of the terms of these provisions shall be provided by a Cabinet Order.