Article 75Disposition of Reserve Funds

①After the Organization has made the settlement under Article 44, paragraph (1) or (2) of the General Rules Act for the last business year of the period of the medium-term objectives prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (2), item (i) of the General Rules Act (referred to as the "period of the medium-term objectives" in this paragraph), if there is a reserve fund under Article 44, paragraph (1) of the General Rules Act, the Organization may apply the portion of the amount corresponding to that reserve fund that has been approved by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to the financial resources for the operations prescribed in Article 70 in the period of the medium-term objectives following that period of the medium-term objectives, as provided in the medium-term plan authorized under Article 30, paragraph (1) of the General Rules Act for that following period (where authorization of a change under the latter part of that paragraph has been obtained, the plan as changed).

②Where, after deducting the amount approved under the preceding paragraph from the amount corresponding to the reserve fund prescribed in that paragraph, there is still a remainder, the Organization must pay to the national treasury, out of that remaining amount, the amount calculated as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

③In addition to what is provided for in the preceding two paragraphs, the procedures for paying the amount to be paid and other matters necessary for the disposition of reserve funds are specified by Cabinet Order.