①In the case where, before the item (iii) Effective Date, a Municipality, finding it difficult to conduct the Comprehensive Project for Long-Term Care Prevention and Daily Life Support prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article from the item (iii) Effective Date due to the difficulty of securing persons to carry out the category 1 home-visit project prescribed in Article 115-45, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, the category 1 day service project prescribed in (b) of that item and the category 1 daily life support project prescribed in (c) of that item, or for other reasons, so provides by a Municipal Ordinance of that Municipality, then, for the period on or after the item (iii) Effective Date until the date specified by that ordinance of that Municipality (hereinafter in this paragraph, the following paragraph and Article 30 of the Supplementary Provisions referred to as a "Specified Municipality") within the period from the item (iii) Effective Date to March 31, 2017, with regard to the Community Support Projects conducted by that Specified Municipality under the provisions of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, the provisions of Article 115-45, paragraph (1), Article 115-45-2, paragraph (2), Article 115-45-3 (excluding the part pertaining to the designation under paragraph (1) of that Article), Article 115-45-4, Article 115-45-7, Article 115-45-8, Article 115-46, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to the category 1 Preventive Long-Term Care Support project), Article 115-47, paragraphs (4) through (7) and paragraph (9), Article 122-2, Article 123, paragraph (3), Article 124, paragraph (3), Article 126, paragraph (1), Article 152 and Article 153 of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act do not apply, and the provisions of Article 115-45, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to items (i) and (ii)) and paragraphs (2) and (7), Article 115-47, paragraphs (4) through (7), Article 122-2, Article 123, paragraph (3), Article 124, paragraph (3), Article 126, paragraph (1), Article 152 and Article 153 of the item (iii) Pre-amendment Long-Term Care Insurance Act remain in force.

②In the case of the preceding paragraph, with regard to insurance benefits under the provisions of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act for Insured Persons of Long-Term Care Insurance covered by a Specified Municipality (including Insured Persons to Whom the Domicile Exception Applies prescribed in paragraph (3) of Article 13 of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act under the Long-Term Care Insurance covered by another Municipality, who are admitted to or reside in a Facility Subject to Domicile Exception prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article located within the area of that Specified Municipality), until the date specified by the Municipal Ordinance set forth in the preceding paragraph of that Specified Municipality, the provisions of Article 8-2, paragraph (1), Article 53, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 54, paragraph (3) of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act do not apply, and the provisions of Article 8-2, paragraphs (1), (2) and (7), Article 53, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 54, paragraph (3) of the item (iii) Pre-amendment Long-Term Care Insurance Act remain in force.

③In the case where, before the item (iii) Effective Date, a Municipality, finding it difficult to conduct the project listed in Article 115-45, paragraph (2), item (iv) of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act from the item (iii) Effective Date due to the difficulty of securing persons with expert knowledge concerning medical care who are to carry out that project, or for other reasons, so provides by a Municipal Ordinance of that Municipality, then, for the period on or after the item (iii) Effective Date until the date specified by that ordinance of that Municipality within the period from the item (iii) Effective Date to March 31, 2018, with regard to the Community Support Projects conducted by that Municipality under the provisions of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, that paragraph (limited to the part listed in that item) and Article 115-45-10 of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act do not apply.

④In the case where, before the item (iii) Effective Date, a Municipality, finding it difficult to conduct the project listed in Article 115-45, paragraph (2), item (v) of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act from the item (iii) Effective Date due to the difficulty of securing persons who are to carry out that project, or for other reasons, so provides by a Municipal Ordinance of that Municipality, then, for the period on or after the item (iii) Effective Date until the date specified by that ordinance of that Municipality within the period from the item (iii) Effective Date to March 31, 2018, with regard to the Community Support Projects conducted by that Municipality under the provisions of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, that paragraph (limited to the part listed in that item) does not apply.

⑤In the case where, before the item (iii) Effective Date, a Municipality, finding it difficult to conduct the project listed in Article 115-45, paragraph (2), item (vi) of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act from the item (iii) Effective Date due to the difficulty of securing persons with expert knowledge concerning health and medical care and welfare who are to carry out that project, or for other reasons, so provides by a Municipal Ordinance of that Municipality, then, for the period on or after the item (iii) Effective Date until the date specified by that ordinance of that Municipality within the period from the item (iii) Effective Date to March 31, 2018, with regard to the Community Support Projects conducted by that Municipality under the provisions of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, that paragraph (limited to the part listed in that item) does not apply.

①In each fiscal year from fiscal year 2015 through fiscal year 2017, in Article 122, paragraph (2) of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, the phrase "Adjusting Subsidies" is deemed to be replaced with "Adjusting Subsidies and the amount granted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the following Article", and the phrase "the same applies in the following paragraph)" with "the same applies in the following paragraph) and the amount of costs required for the Comprehensive Project for Long-Term Care Prevention and Daily Life Support"; in paragraph (3) of that Article, the phrase "total amount of Adjusting Subsidies" is deemed to be replaced with "total amount of Adjusting Subsidies and the amount granted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the following Article", and the phrase "amount of costs necessary for Long-Term Care Benefits and Prevention Benefits as prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article" with "amount of costs necessary for Long-Term Care Benefits and Prevention Benefits as prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and the amount of costs required for the Comprehensive Project for Long-Term Care Prevention and Daily Life Support".

②In each fiscal year from fiscal year 2015 through fiscal year 2017, the provisions of Article 122-2, paragraph (3) of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act do not apply.

The provisions of Article 200-2 of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act apply to insurance premiums for which the due date under that Article arrives on or after the item (iii) Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern insurance premiums for which the time limit equivalent to that due date arrived before the item (iii) Effective Date.

The provisions of Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act apply to the portion of the delinquent charge prescribed in Article 157, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act that corresponds to the period on or after the item (iii) Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the portion of that delinquent charge that corresponds to the period before the item (iii) Effective Date.

The enactment or amendment of Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances and other acts necessary for the enforcement of the item (iii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act may be carried out before the item (iii) Effective Date.

①With regard to insurance benefits pertaining to In-Home Service (including services equivalent thereto), Community-Based Service (including services equivalent thereto), Facility Service, Preventive Long-Term Care Service (including services equivalent thereto), Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care (including services equivalent thereto) or Home Modification under the provisions of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 5 (limited to the amending provisions listed in Article 1, item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions) (hereinafter referred to as the "item (iv) Pre-amendment Long-Term Care Insurance Act") that were provided before the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter referred to as the "item (iv) Effective Date"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②With regard to the payment of the Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility, the Exceptional Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility, the Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility or the Exceptional Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility pertaining to Specified Long-Term Care Service or Specified Preventive Long-Term Care Service provided under the provisions of the item (iv) Pre-amendment Long-Term Care Insurance Act before the item (iv) Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③With regard to the collection of the whole or a part of the amount of the benefit from a person who, by deception or other wrongful act committed before the item (iv) Effective Date, received payment of the Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility, the Exceptional Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility, the Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility or the Exceptional Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility under the provisions of the item (iv) Pre-amendment Long-Term Care Insurance Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①A person who, at the time of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (vi) of the Supplementary Provisions, is conducting the business of Outpatient Day Long-Term Care for which the person has already received the designation under the main clause of Article 41, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to that whose maximum number of users is less than the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 8, paragraph (7) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 6 (limited to the amending provisions listed in that item) (hereinafter referred to as the "item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act"); the same applies in the following paragraph) is deemed to have received, on the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in that item (hereinafter referred to as the "item (vi) Effective Date"), from the mayor of the Municipality where the Business Office conducting that business is located (including, where, on the day before the item (vi) Effective Date, an Insured Person of Long-Term Care Insurance covered by a Municipality other than that Municipality (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "other Municipality") was using the Outpatient Day Long-Term Care provided by the person conducting that business, that other Municipality), the designation under the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act pertaining to Community-Based Outpatient Day Long-Term Care prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (17) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person conducting that business has made a different notification, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, by the day before the item (vi) Effective Date.

②With regard to a person conducting the business of Outpatient Day Long-Term Care who is deemed under the preceding paragraph to have received the designation under the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act pertaining to Community-Based Outpatient Day Long-Term Care prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (17) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, the designation under the main clause of Article 41, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act ceases to be effective on the item (vi) Effective Date.

Until the Municipal Ordinance prescribed in Article 78-2, paragraph (4), item (i) and Article 78-4, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to the part pertaining to Community-Based Outpatient Day Long-Term Care) is enacted and put into effect within a period not exceeding one year counting from the item (vi) Effective Date, the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in Article 78-2, paragraph (5) and Article 78-4, paragraph (3) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act are deemed to be the standards provided for by the Municipal Ordinance of the Municipality concerned.

The enactment or amendment of Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances necessary for the enforcement of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, procedures for the designation under the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act pursuant to Article 78-2 of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to those pertaining to Community-Based Outpatient Day Long-Term Care), and other acts may be carried out before the item (vi) Effective Date.

Until the Municipal Ordinance prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i), Article 79, paragraph (2), item (i) and Article 81, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 6 (limited to the amending provisions listed in that item) (hereinafter referred to as the "item (vii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act") is enacted and put into effect within a period not exceeding one year counting from the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter referred to as the "item (vii) Effective Date"), the standards that were provided for by the Prefectural Ordinance prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i), Article 79, paragraph (2), item (i) and Article 81, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 6 (limited to the amending provisions listed in Article 1, item (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions) (referred to as the "item (vii) Pre-amendment Long-Term Care Insurance Act" in the following Article), as of the day before the item (vii) Effective Date, are deemed to be the standards provided for by the Municipal Ordinance of the Municipality concerned.

A disposition such as a designation, or other act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "disposition or other act") made by a prefectural governor pursuant to the provisions of the item (vii) Pre-amendment Long-Term Care Insurance Act before the item (vii) Effective Date, or an application for a designation, or other act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "application or other act") made to a prefectural governor pursuant to the provisions of the item (vii) Pre-amendment Long-Term Care Insurance Act before the item (vii) Effective Date, that pertains to affairs to be handled, or managed and executed, by a mayor of a Municipality on or after the item (vii) Effective Date, is deemed, on or after the item (vii) Effective Date, to be a disposition or other act made by the mayor of the Municipality or an application or other act made to the mayor of the Municipality.

The enactment or amendment of Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances and other acts necessary for the enforcement of the item (vii) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act may be carried out before the item (vii) Effective Date.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) comes into effect, to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where provisions remain in force pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in Articles 3 through 41 of the Supplementary Provisions and the preceding Article, transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.