Article 60Exceptions to the Amount of Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service

①In a case when a Municipality applies the provisions determined in each item of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a Prevention Benefit listed in those items that an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support receives, for whom it is deemed to be difficult to pay necessary expenses for Preventive Long-Term Care Service (including equivalent services; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care (including equivalent services; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), or Home Modification due to a disaster or other special reasons as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (excluding a case when they are applied with the terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of that Article), the term "90 percent" in these provisions is to be deemed to be replaced with "the percentage provided by a Municipality within the range exceeding 90 percent and 100 percent or less".

②In a case when a Municipality applies the provisions determined in each item of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a Prevention Benefit listed in those items that an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support receives, for whom it is deemed to be difficult to pay necessary expenses for Preventive Long-Term Care Service, Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care, or Home Modification due to a disaster or other special circumstance as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (limited to a case when they are applied with the terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph), the phrase "80 percent" in these provisions applied with the terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is to be deemed to be replaced with "the percentage provided by a Municipality within the range exceeding 80 percent and 100 percent or less".

③In a case when a Municipality applies the provisions determined in each item of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a Prevention Benefit listed in those items that an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support receives, for whom it is deemed to be difficult to pay necessary expenses for Preventive Long-Term Care Service, Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care, or Home Modification due to a disaster or other special circumstance as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (limited to a case when they are applied with the terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article), the phrase "70 percent" in these provisions applied with the terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article is to be deemed to be replaced with "the percentage provided by a Municipality within the range exceeding 70 percent and 100 percent or less".