Article 47Standard Monthly Remuneration Amount of Insured Persons With Optional and Continued Coverage
第四十七条（任意継続被保険者の標準報酬月額）
Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 41 through 44, with respect to the standard monthly remuneration amount of an insured person with optional and continued coverage, the smaller amount between the amounts listed in the following items is the person's standard monthly remuneration amount:
任意継続被保険者の標準報酬月額については、第四十一条から第四十四条までの規定にかかわらず、次の各号に掲げる額のうちいずれか少ない額をもって、その者の標準報酬月額とする。
the standard monthly remuneration amount to be paid when the insured person with optional and continued coverage has lost eligibility as an insured person; or
the standard monthly remuneration amount calculated when the average standard monthly remuneration amount of all insured persons administered by the insurer (if the health insurance association has any amount specified in its constitution within the range of the average amount, that amount) that provided insurance to the insured person with optional and continued coverage on September 30 in the preceding year (for the standard monthly remuneration amount from January to March, the year prior to the preceding year) is deemed to be the monthly remuneration amount that is the basis of the standard monthly remuneration amount.
In the case where the insurer is a health insurance society, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, with respect to an insured person with optional and continued coverage for whom the amount listed in item (i) of that paragraph exceeds the amount listed in item (ii) of that paragraph, the health insurance society may, as provided in its constitution, make the amount listed in item (i) of that paragraph (if the health insurance society has an amount that its constitution specifies within the range exceeding the amount listed in item (ii) of that paragraph and less than the amount listed in item (i) of that paragraph, the standard monthly remuneration amount calculated when the amount so specified in its constitution is deemed to be the monthly remuneration amount that is the basis of the standard monthly remuneration amount) the person's standard monthly remuneration amount.