Article 12Notifications

①A Primary Insured Personmust notify the Municipality of matters regarding acquisition and loss of qualification of Insured Person status and other necessary matters pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, however, provided that this provisiondoes not apply to a case when the Primary Insured Person acquired the qualification of an Insured Person due to becoming subject to Article 10, item (iv) of this Act (except for a case pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare).

②The householder of said family in which a Primary Insured Person resides may provide the notification pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph regarding said Primary Insured Person on behalf of a Primary Insured Person that resides in the household.

③An Insured Person may request the Municipality to issue a Certificate of Insured Person pertaining to said Insured Person.

④An Insured Person must return the Certificate of Insured Person pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare when said Person no longer meets said qualifications.

⑤When a notification is issued pursuant to the provisions of Articles 22 to 24, Article 25, Article 30-46 or Article 30-47 of the Residential Basic Book Act (Act No. 81 of 1967) (limited to a case when a supplementary note is appended to the document pertaining to said notification pursuant to the provisions of Article 28-3 of the same Act), the notification is deemed as a notification pursuant to the main clause of paragraph (1) based on the same reason as said notification.

⑥In addition to the provisions as prescribed in each of the preceding paragraphs of this Article, necessary matters for notification pertaining to an Insured Person and that pertaining to the Certificate of Insured Person are as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare.