Article 44Premiums

①Premiums are to be set on a daily basis, and the amount is to be specified in the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid rules within the range of 300 yen or more and 800 yen or less per covered employee.

②The daily amount of premiums must not include a fraction of less than 10 yen.

③The daily amount of premiums must be a single amount for each specified industry.

④Each time a mutual aid policyholder pays wages to a covered employee, the mutual aid policyholder must pay premiums by affixing a retirement allowance mutual aid stamp to the retirement allowance mutual aid book and canceling it with a seal.

⑤With regard to the payment of premiums under a specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract relating to a specified industry designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, where a mutual aid policyholder, using an electronic data processing system (meaning an electronic data processing system that connects a computer used by the Organization (including input and output devices; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) with a computer used by the mutual aid policyholder through a telecommunication line), reports the actual work performed by covered employees to the Organization as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the payment may be made in cash, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in place of the method prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

⑥Matters necessary for the payment of premiums, such as retirement allowance mutual aid books and retirement allowance mutual aid stamps, are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.