When an insured person delivers a premium, based on the entrustment under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, to a person listed in the items of that paragraph who carries out premium payment services (hereinafter referred to as a "payment agent"), the payment agent is responsible to the government for payment of that premium.
When a payment agent receives delivery of a premium from an insured person under the preceding paragraph, the payment agent must, without delay, report that fact and the date of receipt to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, as specified by Ministerial Order.
When an insured person delivers a premium to a payment agent under paragraph (1) (in the case of a premium relating to advance payment, when each month of the period relating to the advance payment has elapsed), the insured period relating to that premium is deemed to be a premium-paid period for the purpose of applying Article 5, paragraph (1).
When an insured person delivers, to a payment agent under paragraph (1), a premium for which part of the amount is not required to be paid under Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) (in the case of a premium relating to advance payment, when each month of the period relating to the advance payment has elapsed), the insured period relating to that premium is, notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, deemed to be a three-quarter premium exemption period for the purpose of applying Article 5, paragraph (4), a half premium exemption period for the purpose of applying paragraph (5) of that Article, and a one-quarter premium exemption period for the purpose of applying paragraph (6) of that Article.
被保険者が第一項の規定により、第九十条の二第一項から第三項までの規定によりその一部の額につき納付することを要しないものとされた保険料を納付受託者に交付したとき（前納に係る保険料にあつては、前納に係る期間の各月が経過したとき）は、当該保険料に係る被保険者期間は、前項の規定にかかわらず、第五条第四項の規定の適用については保険料四分の三免除期間と、同条第五項の規定の適用については保険料半額免除期間と、同条第六項の規定の適用については保険料四分の一免除期間とみなす。
When an insured person delivers a premium to a payment agent under paragraph (1), payment of that premium is deemed to have been made on the day of that delivery, for the purpose of applying Article 97.
With respect to the amount to be collected that a payment agent is to pay under paragraph (1), the government may collect the remaining amount from the insured person concerned, only where there is a remaining amount still to be collected even after a disposition under Article 96, paragraph (4) has been taken against that payment agent.