Supplementary Provisions

This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2006; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items, respectively:

The provisions of Article 116-2, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the National Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of the preceding Article (referred to as the "Revised National Health Insurance Act" in the following Article) (limited to the part concerning move-in) apply to an insured person under the national health insurance program who is found to have changed their domicile, on or after the date of enforcement, to the location of the specified facility dedicated to long-term care set forth in that item, by moving into that specified facility dedicated to long-term care, and who, at the time of moving into that specified facility dedicated to long-term care, is found to have been domiciled within the area of a Municipality other than the Municipality in which that specified facility dedicated to long-term care is located.

①An insured person under the national health insurance program who is found, by having been admitted before this Act comes into effect to a facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (21) of the former Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to those with an admission capacity of 29 persons or less; hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly"), to have changed their domicile to the location of that small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly, and who is found to have been domiciled, at the time of admission to that small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly, in the area of another Municipality (meaning a Municipality other than the Municipality in which that small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly is located), is, for as long as the person continues to be admitted to that small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly on or after the date of enforcement, an insured person under the national health insurance program provided by that other Municipality, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 5 of the National Health Insurance Act; provided, however, that this does not apply to an insured person under the national health insurance program who has been continuously hospitalized, etc. (meaning the hospitalization, etc. prescribed in Article 116-2, paragraph (1) of the Revised National Health Insurance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) in two or more hospitals, etc. (meaning the hospitals, etc. prescribed in Article 116-2, paragraph (1) of the Revised National Health Insurance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) and who is found to have sequentially changed their domicile to the locations of the last hospital, etc. (meaning the hospital, etc. in which the person was hospitalized, etc. immediately before being admitted to the small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly in which the person is currently admitted (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "current facility of admission"); hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "last hospital, etc.") and the current facility of admission, respectively, by being hospitalized, etc. in each of the last hospital, etc. and the current facility of admission (referred to as a "continuously hospitalized insured person" in the following paragraph).

②Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 5 of the National Health Insurance Act, a continuously hospitalized insured person who falls under any of the following items shall be an insured person covered by the national health insurance program provided by the Municipality set forth in the relevant item:

③With regard to an insured person under the national health insurance program to whom the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply, the provisions of Article 116-2, paragraph (3) of the Revised National Health Insurance Act apply by deeming the current facility of admission, and the hospital, etc. in which the person was under hospitalization, etc. before being admitted to the current facility of admission, each to be a hospital, etc. prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in Article 3 through Article 27, Article 36 and Article 37 of the Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order.