①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates the person who is to become the president and the persons who are to become the auditors of the Japan Health Insurance Association (hereinafter referred to as "JHIA") prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act after amendment by the provisions of Article 4 (hereinafter referred to as the "Health Insurance Act as Amended in October 2008").

②The person who is to become the president and the persons who are to become the auditors designated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are deemed to have been appointed as the president and the auditors, respectively, at the time of the establishment of JHIA pursuant to the provisions of Article 7-11, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act as Amended in October 2008.

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare appoints committee members and has them handle the affairs relating to the establishment of JHIA.

②The committee members must determine the working conditions of JHIA's employees and the standards for hiring JHIA's employees.

③The committee members must determine the constitution, prepare a business plan and budget for the period on or after the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 within the business year that includes that date, and obtain authorization from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for the constitution, business plan and budget.

④The committee members must, by the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, determine the operating rules prescribed in Article 7-22, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act as Amended in October 2008 and notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of those rules.

⑤When the committee members have completed the preparations for the establishment of JHIA, they must without delay notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect and hand over their affairs to the person who is to become the president designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.

⑥When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has given the authorization referred to in paragraph (3), the Minister is to give public notice to that effect immediately.

⑦JHIA is established on the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 when the public notice referred to in the preceding paragraph has been given. In this case, JHIA must without delay give public notice of its constitution.

①A committee member or a person who has held that position must not divulge, without justifiable reasons, confidential information learned in the course of duty concerning the affairs of the establishment of JHIA.

②A person who divulges confidential information in violation of the provisions of the preceding paragraph is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen.

①The committee members are to recruit employees by presenting the working conditions of JHIA's employees and the standards for hiring JHIA's employees to the employees of the Social Insurance Agency through the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency.

②When the working conditions of JHIA's employees and the standards for hiring JHIA's employees have been presented to the employees of the Social Insurance Agency pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency is to confirm the intentions of the employees of the Social Insurance Agency regarding becoming JHIA's employees, select, from among those who have expressed an intention to become JHIA's employees, the persons who are to become JHIA's employees in accordance with the standards for hiring JHIA's employees, prepare a roster of them, and submit it to the committee members.

③Among the employees of the Social Insurance Agency listed in the roster referred to in the preceding paragraph, a person who has received notice from the committee members to the effect that the person is to be hired and who is an employee of the Social Insurance Agency at the time of the enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 is hired as an employee of JHIA at the time of the establishment of JHIA.

④The matters that are to constitute the content of the working conditions to be presented pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the method of presentation pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the method of confirming the intentions of employees pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), and other matters necessary for the implementation of the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑤With regard to the hiring of JHIA's employees, acts done by the committee members and acts done toward the committee members are deemed to be acts done by JHIA and acts done toward JHIA, respectively.

①No retirement allowance based on the Act on National Public Officers' Retirement Allowance (Act No. 182 of 1953) is paid to a person hired as an employee of JHIA pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article.

②When JHIA intends to pay a retirement allowance upon the retirement of an employee of JHIA to whom the provisions of the preceding paragraph have applied, it is to treat the person's continuous period of service as an employee prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on National Public Officers' Retirement Allowance (including a person deemed to be an employee pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article) as a period of service as an employee of JHIA.

③JHIA is to pay, as a retirement allowance, an amount equivalent to the amount of retirement allowance calculated in accordance with Article 10 of the Act on National Public Officers' Retirement Allowance to a person who, among those who were in service as employees of the Social Insurance Agency on the day preceding the date of establishment of JHIA and were continuously hired as employees of JHIA pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, retired from JHIA during the period from the date of establishment of JHIA until acquiring eligibility to receive unemployment benefits, etc. under the Employment Insurance Act (Act No. 116 of 1974), and who would have been able to receive a retirement allowance pursuant to the provisions of Article 10 of the Act on National Public Officers' Retirement Allowance if the person had remained in service as an employee of the Social Insurance Agency until the day of that retirement.

If a person who was hired as an employee of JHIA pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions and who, on the day preceding the date of establishment of JHIA, has received certification from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or a person delegated by the Minister pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Child Allowance Act (Act No. 73 of 1971) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2), Article 7, paragraph (5) or Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) meets the requirements for payment of child allowance or the benefits under Article 6, paragraph (1), Article 7, paragraph (1) or Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (hereinafter referred to as "special benefit, etc." in this Article) on the date of establishment of JHIA, then with regard to payment of child allowance or special benefit, etc. to that person, certification by the mayor of a municipality (including the mayor of a special ward; the same applies hereinafter) pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to have been given on the date of establishment of JHIA. In this case, payment of the child allowance or special benefit, etc. for which certification is deemed to have been given starts, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) of that Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2), Article 7, paragraph (5) or Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act), from the month following the month that includes the day preceding the date of establishment of JHIA.

①The rights and obligations that the State holds at the time of the establishment of JHIA in relation to the affairs listed in Article 4, paragraph (1), item (xciv) of the Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Act No. 97 of 1999) are succeeded to by JHIA, except for those specified by Cabinet Order.

②When JHIA has succeeded to the rights and obligations held by the national government pursuant to the preceding paragraph, an amount equivalent to the amount obtained by deducting the total value of the liabilities specified by Cabinet Order pertaining to the obligations to be succeeded to from the total value of the assets specified by Cabinet Order pertaining to the rights to be succeeded to by JHIA is deemed to have been contributed to JHIA by the government, as provided by Cabinet Order.

③The value of the assets referred to in the preceding paragraph is the value appraised by the appraisal committee members on the basis of the market price as of the day of JHIA's establishment.

④The appraisal committee members referred to in the preceding paragraph and other matters necessary for appraisal are specified by Cabinet Order.

No registration and license tax is imposed on registration or recording accompanying the succession in the case where JHIA succeeds to rights pursuant to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.

In the case where JHIA has succeeded to rights concerning real estate pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, special provisions may be established by Cabinet Order regarding the procedures for registration to be made with respect to those rights.

A person who was an insured person of the health insurance administered by the government prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Health Insurance Act Before the October 2008 Amendment (hereinafter referred to as "former government-managed health insurance") on the day before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 (excluding a person who, on that day, falls under any of the grounds listed in the items of Article 36 or Article 38, items (i) through (iii) of the Health Insurance Act Before the October 2008 Amendment) is to become, on the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, an insured person of the health insurance administered by the Japan Health Insurance Association prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Health Insurance Act as Amended in October 2008.

①In the case where a person who retired from the place of business where the person was employed before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, and who had not made the application under Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Health Insurance Act Before the October 2008 Amendment before that date, makes that application to JHIA on or after the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 by the day on which 20 days have elapsed counting from the day of retirement (if JHIA finds that there are justifiable grounds, the day on which it so finds; the same applies in the following paragraph), that person is to be treated as a person who was an insured person with optional and continued coverage under former government-managed health insurance during the period from the day following the day of retirement to the day before the date of enforcement of the provisions of that Article.

②A person who retired from the place of business where the person was employed before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, and who made the application under Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Health Insurance Act Before the October 2008 Amendment to the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency on the day before that date (limited to a person who made that application by the day on which 20 days have elapsed counting from the day of retirement), is to be treated as a person who was an insured person with optional and continued coverage under former government-managed health insurance during the period from the day following the day of retirement to the day before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4.

③A person who is an insured person with optional and continued coverage under former government-managed health insurance on the day before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 (including a person treated as having been an insured person with optional and continued coverage pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs, but excluding a person who, on that day, fell under any of Article 38, items (i) through (iii) of the Health Insurance Act Before the October 2008 Amendment) is to become, on the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, an insured person with optional and continued coverage under the health insurance administered by JHIA. In this case, the period during which that person was an insured person with optional and continued coverage under former government-managed health insurance is deemed to be a period during which the person was an insured person with optional and continued coverage under the health insurance administered by JHIA.

④A person who was an insured person (excluding an insured person with optional and continued coverage) under former government-managed health insurance on the day before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, and who retired from the place of business where the person was employed on that day and, on that day, made the application under Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Health Insurance Act Before the October 2008 Amendment to the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, is to become, on the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 4, an insured person with optional and continued coverage under the health insurance administered by JHIA.