In order to allocate them to expenses required for health insurance services pertaining to specially-insured day laborers (including expenses required for payment of young-old payments, etc., aid for the old-old, etc., long-term care payments, contributions for securing medical care in the early phase of an epidemic, etc., and children and child-rearing support levies; the same applies in Article 175), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, beyond collecting insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of Article 155, collects contributions every fiscal year from health insurance societies established by employers of specially-insured day laborers (hereinafter referred to as "day laborer health societies").
厚生労働大臣は、日雇特例被保険者に係る健康保険事業に要する費用（前期高齢者納付金等及び後期高齢者支援金等、介護納付金、流行初期医療確保拠出金等並びに子ども・子育て支援納付金の納付に要する費用を含む。第百七十五条において同じ。）に充てるため、第百五十五条の規定により保険料を徴収するほか、毎年度、日雇特例被保険者を使用する事業主の設立する健康保険組合（以下「日雇関係組合」という。）から拠出金を徴収する。
A day laborer health society is obliged to pay the contributions prescribed in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "day laborer contributions").