Article 2Jurisdiction

①The affairs that are to be handled by municipalities (including special wards; the same applies hereinafter) under the Act and Article 1-2 are to be carried out by the mayor of the municipality of the place of domicile of a category 1 insured person or a person who was a category 1 insured person (in the case of a category 1 insured person or a person who was a category 1 insured person who has no domicile in Japan, the place determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare), or of the place of domicile of a person entitled to receive a benefit (where the person has no domicile in Japan, the last place of domicile of the person entitled to receive the benefit in Japan).

②The affairs listed in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii) are to be carried out, where the person entitled to receive the benefit was a member on the date of first medical examination (or, for a disability resulting from an injury or illness that arose before April 1, 1986, the date on which that injury or illness arose) relating to the disability that was the ground for payment of the disability basic pension prescribed in that item (in the case of a disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Act, the later disability; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), by the mutual aid association to which the person belonged (where the person entitled to receive the benefit was on that day a member of a mutual aid association that organizes the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations or the National Federation of Mutual Aid Associations for Municipal Personnel, by that respective federation), and, where the person was a participant in the private school personnel mutual aid system, by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan.