Supplementary Provisions, Article 15
第十五条
A person who, at the time the provisions of Article 3 come into effect, is able to receive Type I disability compensation or Type I disability benefits, or illness or injury benefits, under the provisions of the former Act is, respectively, to be paid a disability compensation pension, or provided with long-term illness or injury compensation benefits, under the provisions of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of that Article (hereinafter referred to as the "new Act"). In this case, the long-term illness or injury compensation benefits provided to a person who is able to receive Type I illness or injury benefits are, if that person so requests to the government within 30 days after the provisions of that Article come into effect, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1) of the new Act, to consist only of a pension in the amount determined in accordance with the provisions then in force, until the injury or illness is healed or until the injury or illness comes to require medical treatment through admission to a hospital or clinic.
第三条の規定の施行の際現に旧法の規定による第一種障害補償費若しくは第一種障害給付又は傷病給付を受けることができる者には、それぞれ、同条の規定による改正後の労働者災害補償保険法（以下「新法」という。）の規定による障害補償年金を支給し、又は長期傷病補償給付を行なう。この場合において、第一種傷病給付を受けることができる者に対して行なう長期傷病補償給付は、その者が同条の規定の施行後三十日以内に政府に申出をしたときは、新法第十八条第一項の規定にかかわらず、当該負傷若しくは疾病がなおるまで又は当該負傷若しくは疾病について病院若しくは診療所への収容による療養を必要とするに至るまでの間、従前の例による額の年金のみとする。