Supplementary Provisions, Article 4-6Special Provisions on Exemptions
第四条の六（適用除外の特例）
For the time being, a part-time worker under 70 years of age who is employed at an applicable place of business, who is a worker listed in the items of Article 7 of the Minimum Wage Act (Act No. 137 of 1959) to whom the provisions of that Article apply, and whose remuneration (excluding what is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as equivalent to the wages listed in the items of Article 4, paragraph (3) of that Act), as calculated pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare following the example of the provisions of Article 22, paragraph (1), is less than 88,000 yen (hereinafter referred to as a "specified person under the reduced minimum wage exception" in this Article) is not to be an insured, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9.
A specified person under the reduced minimum wage exception may become an insured, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the person makes a request to an implementing organization (limited to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan; the same applies in paragraph (5)) pursuant to the order of the competent ministry.
When the request is accepted, a person who has made the request under the preceding paragraph acquires, on that day, status as an insured under the provisions of that paragraph.
If an insured under the provisions of Article 9 comes to fall under a specified person under the reduced minimum wage exception and continues to be employed at the same place of business, the person is deemed, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2), to have become an insured under the provisions of paragraph (2) on the day on which the person came to so fall.
An insured under the provisions of paragraph (2) (including a person deemed to be that insured pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph) may, at any time, make a request to an implementing organization pursuant to the order of the competent ministry and lose status as an insured.
An insured under the provisions of paragraph (2) loses status as an insured on the day following the day on which the insured comes to fall under any item of Article 14 (excluding item (iii)) or any of the following items (or, if the insured acquires status as an insured again on the day of that fact, or comes to fall under Article 14, item (v), on that day).
when the approval referred to in Article 8, paragraph (1) has been given;
第八条第一項の認可があつたとき。
when the request under the preceding paragraph has been accepted; or
前項の申出が受理されたとき。
when the person ceases to be a specified person under the reduced minimum wage exception.
特定減額特例対象者でなくなつたとき。
A request under paragraph (2) is to be made at the same time as a request under Article 8-3-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Health Insurance Act, in the case of a specified person under the reduced minimum wage exception who can make the latter request, and a request under paragraph (5) is to be made at the same time as a request under Article 8-3-2, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Health Insurance Act, in the case of a specified person under the reduced minimum wage exception who can make the latter request.
In addition to what is prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (6), matters necessary for the acquisition and loss of status as an insured are specified by Cabinet Order.
第一項から第六項までに規定するもののほか、被保険者の資格の取得及び喪失に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。
In paragraph (1), a "part-time worker" means a person who falls under any of the following items and does not fall under any of the items of Article 12:
a part-time worker (meaning a part-time worker prescribed in Article 12, item (v); the same applies in the following item) whose scheduled working hours per week are less than three-quarters of the scheduled working hours per week of an ordinary worker employed at the same place of business (meaning an ordinary worker prescribed in Article 12, item (v); the same applies in the following item);
a part-time worker whose prescribed working days per month are less than three-quarters of the prescribed working days per month of an ordinary worker employed at the same place of business.