Supplementary Provisions, Article 73Transitional Measures Concerning Dispositions, Applications, Etc.
第七十三条（処分、申請等に関する経過措置）
A determination, approval, designation, authorization, or other disposition, or notification or other act, made before this Act (or, for the provisions listed in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those respective provisions; the same applies hereinafter) comes into effect, by the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, the director of a Regional Social Insurance Bureau, or the head of a Social Insurance Office (hereinafter referred to as the "Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, etc.") under the provisions of laws and regulations, is, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations, deemed, after this Act comes into effect, to be a determination, approval, designation, authorization, or other disposition, or notification or other act, made by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the director of a Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare, the director of a Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare's branch office, or the Agency (hereinafter referred to as the "Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, etc."), based on the corresponding provisions of laws and regulations after this Act comes into effect.
An application, notification, or other act made to the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, etc. under the provisions of laws and regulations that is in effect at the time this Act comes into effect is, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations, deemed, after this Act comes into effect, to be an application, notification, or other act made to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, etc., based on the corresponding provisions of laws and regulations after this Act comes into effect.
With regard to a matter for which a report, notification, submission, or other procedure is required to be made to the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, etc. under the provisions of laws and regulations before this Act comes into effect, and for which that procedure has not been made before the effective date, the provisions of laws and regulations after this Act comes into effect apply, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations, by deeming it, after this Act comes into effect, to be a matter for which a report, notification, submission, or other procedure is required to be made to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, etc. under the corresponding provisions of laws and regulations after this Act comes into effect, and for which that procedure has not been made.
With regard to a determination, approval, designation, authorization, or other disposition, or notification or other act, to be made by the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, etc., or an application, notification, or other act to be made to the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, etc., under the provisions of laws and regulations for which the provisions then in force continue to govern, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, etc. is, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations, after this Act comes into effect, to make it, or it is to be made to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, etc., respectively, according to the classification of the authority, or of affairs pertaining to the authority, based on the provisions of laws and regulations after this Act comes into effect.