Supplementary Provisions

This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding 1 year from the date of promulgation.

When approximately five years have passed after this Act comes into effect, the government is to review the status of enforcement of the provisions as amended by the provisions of this Act and, if it finds it necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results.

With regard to the application of Article 22, paragraph (3) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Long-Term Care Insurance Act") in the case where, before the date of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), a Designated In-Home Service Provider, etc. prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (3) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act has received payment under Article 41, paragraph (6), Article 42-2, paragraph (6), Article 46, paragraph (4), Article 48, paragraph (4), Article 51-3, paragraph (4), Article 53, paragraph (4), Article 54-2, paragraph (6), Article 58, paragraph (4) or Article 61-3, paragraph (4) of that Act by false or other wrongful means committed before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the dispositions on whether or not to grant a designation or renewal of designation, or an approval or renewal of approval, in response to an application for designation or renewal of designation or an application for approval or renewal of approval filed before the Effective Date under Article 70, paragraph (1) (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 70-2, paragraph (4) (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 78-11, Article 115-10, Article 115-19 and Article 115-28)), Article 78-2, paragraph (1), Article 79, paragraph (1) (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 79-2, paragraph (4)), Article 86, paragraph (1) (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 86-2, paragraph (4)), Article 94, paragraph (1) (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 94-2, paragraph (4)), Article 107, paragraph (1) (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 107-2, paragraph (4)), Article 115-2, paragraph (1), Article 115-11, paragraph (1) or Article 115-20, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act prior to its amendment by this Act (hereinafter in this Article and the following Article referred to as the "Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act"), for which no disposition on whether or not to grant the designation or renewal of designation, or the approval or renewal of approval, has been made at the time of enforcement of this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 70, paragraph (2), item (vi)-3 of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 70-2, paragraph (4) of that Act (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 78-12, Article 115-11, Article 115-21 and Article 115-31 of that Act)), Article 78-2, paragraph (4), item (vi)-3 or paragraph (6), item (i)-3, Article 79, paragraph (2), item (v)-2 (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 79-2, paragraph (4) of that Act), Article 115-2, paragraph (2), item (vi)-3, Article 115-12, paragraph (2), item (vi)-3 or paragraph (4), item (i)-3, or Article 115-22, paragraph (2), item (v)-2 of that Act do not apply where a person who has a close relationship with the applicant prescribed in Article 70, paragraph (2), item (vi)-3 of that Act (excluding a person who has a close relationship with an applicant for designation pertaining to Daily Life Long-Term Care for a Person Admitted to a Community-Based Facility for the Elderly Covered by Public Aid Requiring Long-Term Care prescribed in Article 78-2, paragraph (4), item (vi)-3 of that Act) is a juridical person whose designation was rescinded before the Effective Date pursuant to Article 77, paragraph (1), Article 78-9, Article 84, paragraph (1), Article 115-8, paragraph (1), Article 115-17, Article 115-26 or Article 115-29, paragraph (6) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act, or whose designation was rescinded after the Effective Date, on the grounds of a fact that occurred before the Effective Date, pursuant to Article 77, paragraph (1), Article 78-10, Article 84, paragraph (1), Article 115-9, paragraph (1), Article 115-19, Article 115-29 or Article 115-35, paragraph (6) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act, and for which five years have not passed counting from the date of those rescissions.

The provisions of Article 75, paragraph (2), Article 78-5, paragraph (2), Article 82, paragraph (2), Article 99, paragraph (2), Article 115-5, paragraph (2), Article 115-15, paragraph (2) or Article 115-25, paragraph (2) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act apply to a Designated In-Home Service Provider, a Designated Community-Based Service Provider (excluding a person that provides Daily Life Long-Term Care for a Person Admitted to a Community-Based Facility for the Elderly Covered by Public Aid Requiring Long-Term Care; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), a Designated In-Home Long-Term Care Support Provider, a Designated Provider of Preventive Long-Term Care Service, a Designated Provider of Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care or a Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Support Provider that abolishes or suspends its business on or after the date on which one month has elapsed, counting from the Effective Date, or to the Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility who abolishes or suspends said Long-Term Care Health Facility on or after that date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern a Designated In-Home Service Provider, a Designated Community-Based Service Provider, a Designated In-Home Long-Term Care Support Provider, a Designated Provider of Preventive Long-Term Care Service, a Designated Provider of Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care or a Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Support Provider that abolished or suspended its business before that date, or the Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility who abolished or suspended said Long-Term Care Health Facility before that date.

The provisions of Article 104-2 of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act apply to cases that come to fall under any case set forth in the items of that Article on or after the Effective Date.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.