Supplementary Provisions

This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2006; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items, respectively:

The government is to conduct a review of the scope of Insured Persons under the long-term care insurance system and of persons who can receive insurance benefits, in conjunction with an integrated review of the entire system relating to social security, and, based on the results thereof, is to take required measures with fiscal year 2009 as the target.

①Pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, long-term care assistance pertaining to care prevention services prescribed in Article 15-2, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Public Assistance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 14 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Public Assistance Act"), welfare equipment for care prevention prescribed in item (vi) of that paragraph and home renovation for care prevention prescribed in item (vii) of that paragraph is not provided, until the date specified by Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance within the period from the Effective Date to April 1, 2008, to a public assistance recipient (meaning a public assistance recipient prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Public Assistance Act; the same applies hereinafter) who has a place of residence (or, where the person has no place of residence or it is unclear, the current location; the same applies in the following paragraph and the following Article) within the district of a municipality to which the provisions of Article 18, item (ii), Article 19, paragraph (2), Articles 32 through 34 and Chapter IV, Section 4 of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act do not apply.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, with regard to a public assistance recipient who has a place of residence within the district of the municipality concerned, the provisions of Article 15-2 of the New Public Assistance Act apply by deeming a person who falls under a person requiring support prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (4) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act to be a person who falls under a person requiring long-term care prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article.

In the case where, at the time this Act comes into effect, long-term care assistance is actually being provided to a public assistance recipient pursuant to the provisions of Article 34-2, paragraph (2) of the Public Assistance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 14 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Public Assistance Act") (limited to facility care services prescribed in Article 15-2, paragraph (4) of the Former Public Assistance Act (referred to as "facility care services" in Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions)) by entrusting it to a Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (21) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to one with a capacity of 29 persons or fewer), the person who is to provide public assistance to that person is to be determined, for the duration of that entrustment, by the place of residence of that person before the entrustment.

With regard to a person requiring long-term care prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (3) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act and a person requiring support prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article (limited to a person who is not an Insured Person of Long-Term Care Insurance) for whom long-term care assistance is actually being provided at the time this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of Article 15-2 of the Former Public Assistance Act, the provisions of Article 15-2 of the New Public Assistance Act apply by deeming the person, for a period limited to two years counted from the Effective Date and continuously on or after the Effective Date, to be a person requiring long-term care prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (3) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act.

With regard to a public assistance recipient who is a person requiring support prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (4) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act and for whom long-term care assistance (limited to facility care services) under the provisions of Article 34-2, paragraph (2) of the Former Public Assistance Act is actually being provided, at the time this Act comes into effect, by entrusting it to a Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (21) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act, a long-term care health facility prescribed in paragraph (22) of that Article or a long-term care sanatorium-type medical facility prescribed in paragraph (23) of that Article (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "long-term care assistance facility"), the provisions of Article 15-2, paragraph (1) of the New Public Assistance Act apply by deeming the person to be a person requiring long-term care prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (3) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, for a period limited to three years counted from the Effective Date and while the person continues on or after the Effective Date to be admitted to or hospitalized in that long-term care assistance facility.

The procedures for designation under Article 54-2, paragraph (1) of the New Public Assistance Act and other acts may be carried out even before the Effective Date.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in Article 3 through Article 27, Article 36 and Article 37 of the Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order.