Supplementary Provisions, Article 20Transitional Measures concerning Community-Based Outpatient Day Long-Term Care

①A person who, at the time of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (vi) of the Supplementary Provisions, is conducting the business of Outpatient Day Long-Term Care for which the person has already received the designation under the main clause of Article 41, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to that whose maximum number of users is less than the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 8, paragraph (7) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 6 (limited to the amending provisions listed in that item) (hereinafter referred to as the "item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act"); the same applies in the following paragraph) is deemed to have received, on the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in that item (hereinafter referred to as the "item (vi) Effective Date"), from the mayor of the Municipality where the Business Office conducting that business is located (including, where, on the day before the item (vi) Effective Date, an Insured Person of Long-Term Care Insurance covered by a Municipality other than that Municipality (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "other Municipality") was using the Outpatient Day Long-Term Care provided by the person conducting that business, that other Municipality), the designation under the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act pertaining to Community-Based Outpatient Day Long-Term Care prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (17) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person conducting that business has made a different notification, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, by the day before the item (vi) Effective Date.