①The right to receive medical treatment compensation benefits, compensation payments for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, funeral service fees, nursing care compensation benefits, medical treatment benefits for multiple-job workers, payments for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work for multiple-job workers, funeral benefit for multiple-job workers, nursing care benefits for multiple-job workers, medical treatment benefits, payments for loss of salary during a temporary absence from work, funeral benefits, nursing care benefits and payment for follow-up medical examination is extinguished by prescription when two years have elapsed from the time when it becomes exercisable, and the right to receive disability compensation benefits, compensation benefits for surviving family, disability benefits for multiple-job workers, benefits for surviving family of multiple-job workers, disability benefits and benefits for surviving family is extinguished by prescription when five years have elapsed from the time when it becomes exercisable.

②Where, due to the revision of the average salary for each quarter under the provisions of Article 8-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) or the average salary for a fiscal year under the provisions of Article 8-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has changed the rate specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 8-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 8-3, paragraph (1), item (ii) or Article 16-6, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 20-6, paragraph (3) or Article 22-4, paragraph (3), and cases where that provision is to be followed pursuant to the provisions of Article 58, paragraph (1), Article 60-2, paragraph (1) or Article 61, paragraph (1)), or the government has changed the amount calculated by the government prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (2), and there are insurance proceeds whose amount has been recalculated as a result of that change, the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Public Accounting Act (Act No. 35 of 1947) do not apply to the right to receive payment of unpaid insurance proceeds under the provisions of Article 11 pertaining to those insurance proceeds.

The provisions of the Civil Code concerning the computation of a period of time apply mutatis mutandis to the computation of a period of time prescribed in this Act or by Cabinet Orders and Orders of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under this Act.

No stamp tax is imposed on documents related to industrial accident compensation insurance.

The mayor of a municipality (including the mayor of a special ward, and with regard to a designated city set forth in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), the mayor of a ward or the mayor of an administratively consolidated ward) may, pursuant to the provisions of a municipal ordinance of the relevant municipality (including a special ward), issue a certificate with no charge, in respect of the family register of a person or surviving family member seeking to receive insurance proceeds, to the administrative agency concerned or the person seeking to receive insurance proceeds.

An administrative agency may, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order a person who hires workers, a labor insurance affairs association, an association prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1), a client entity prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985; referred to as the "Worker Dispatching Act" in Article 48, paragraph (1)) (hereinafter referred to as a "client entity"), or a person who receives the services of a dispatched mariner prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (13) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act (Act No. 130 of 1948) (hereinafter referred to as a "dispatched mariner"), to make a report, submit a document or appear as necessary for the enforcement of this Act.

An administrative agency may, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order a worker hired for a business in which the relationship between the insured business and this insurance has been established (including a person who is deemed to be a worker hired for that business pursuant to the provisions of Article 34, paragraph (1), item (i), Article 35, paragraph (1), item (iii) or Article 36, paragraph (1), item (i)) or a person who receives or seeks to receive insurance proceeds, to make a report, make a notification, or submit a document or other articles (hereinafter referred to as a "report, etc." in this Article) or to appear in its office as necessary for the enforcement of this Act, or may order a third party who caused an accident which was the cause of insurance proceeds (excluding a client entity and a person who receives the services of a dispatched mariner; hereinafter referred to as a "third party" in Article 53) to make a report, etc.

An administrative agency may, when it finds it necessary for the payment of insurance proceeds, order a person who receives or seeks to receive insurance proceeds (including the person who is the basis of calculation of the amount of a compensation pension for surviving family, a pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers or a pension for surviving family) to undergo a diagnosis by a doctor designated by the agency.

The government may temporarily suspend the payment of insurance proceeds when a person having the right to receive insurance proceeds, without any reasonable grounds, fails to make a notification or submit a document or other items pursuant to the provisions of Article 12-7 or fails to comply with an order issued pursuant to the provisions of preceding two Articles.

①An administrative agency may, to the extent necessary for the enforcement of this Act, have its officials enter the workplace of the insured business, the office of a labor insurance affairs association or of an association prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1), the workplace of the business of a client entity prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act, or the workplace of a person who receives the services of a dispatched mariner, question relevant persons or inspect books and documents or other items.

②An official who conducts an on-site inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must carry an identification card and present it to the relevant persons.

③The authority to conduct on-site inspections under the provisions of paragraph (1) must not be construed as the authority granted for criminal investigations.

①An administrative agency may, when it finds it necessary for the payment of insurance proceeds, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order the doctor or other person who takes charge of the medical examination of a person who receives or seeks to receive insurance proceeds (including the person who is the basis of calculation of the amount of a compensation pension for surviving family, pension for surviving family of multiple-job workers or pension for surviving family), to submit a report or medical records, books and documents or other items related to the matters concerning the medical examination, or may have its officials inspect these items.

②The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the inspection under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when the Minister finds it necessary in order to achieve the purposes of this Act with regard to mariners prescribed in Article 1 of the Mariners Act, request the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to take necessary measures based on the Mariners Act.

②When the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism finds it necessary in order to take the measures under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister may request the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to provide materials.

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, with regard to the enforcement of this Act, request the relevant administrative organs or public or private organizations to provide materials or other necessary cooperation.

②The relevant administrative organs or public or private organizations requested to cooperate pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must meet requests to the fullest extent possible.

Where Cabinet Order or Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is established, amended or abolished under this Act, necessary transitional measures may be provided for by Cabinet Order or Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, respectively, to the extent considered reasonably necessary for such establishment, amendment or abolition.

The authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed by this Act may, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, be partially delegated to the Directors of the Prefectural Labor Bureaus.

The details concerning the enforcement of this Act are prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.