Within a period not exceeding one year counted from the Effective Date, until a Prefectural Ordinance prescribed in each item of Article 72-2, paragraph (1) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act is enacted and enforced, the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article are deemed to be the standards provided for by the Prefectural Ordinance of that prefecture.

Within a period not exceeding one year counted from the Effective Date, until a Municipal Ordinance prescribed in each item of Article 78-2-2, paragraph (1) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act is enacted and enforced, the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article are deemed to be the standards provided for by the Municipal Ordinance of that Municipality.

Until the Prefectural Ordinance prescribed in each item of Article 115-2-2, paragraph (1) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act is enacted and put into effect within a period not exceeding one year counting from the Effective Date, the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article are deemed to be the standards provided for by the Prefectural Ordinance of the prefecture concerned.

Until the Municipal Ordinance prescribed in each item of Article 115-12-2, paragraph (1) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act is enacted and put into effect within a period not exceeding one year counting from the Effective Date, the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article are deemed to be the standards provided for by the Municipal Ordinance of the Municipality concerned.

Until the Prefectural Ordinance prescribed in Article 111, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act is enacted and put into effect within a period not exceeding one year counting from the Effective Date, the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article are deemed to be the standards provided for by the Prefectural Ordinance of the prefecture concerned.

In the case where a person who, on the day before the Effective Date, has actually established a hospital or clinic and uses in the name of that hospital or clinic the words hospital, hospital branch, maternity home, sanatorium, clinic, examination room, medical office or other words similar to these (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "words similar to hospital, etc.") abolishes that hospital or clinic and establishes an integrated facility for medical and long-term care prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (29) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as an "integrated facility for medical and long-term care"), or reduces the number of beds of that hospital or clinic and establishes an integrated facility for medical and long-term care, for as long as that integrated facility for medical and long-term care meets the requirements specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, such as using the words integrated facility for medical and long-term care in its name, the person may, notwithstanding Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act, continue to use words similar to hospital, etc. in the name of that integrated facility for medical and long-term care (limited to those that were used in the name of that hospital or clinic when that hospital or clinic was abolished or when the number of its beds was reduced).

When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare intends to specify the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in Article 72-2, paragraph (2) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to the part concerning the handling of Designated In-Home Service prescribed in Article 41, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act), the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in Article 78-2-2, paragraph (2) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to the part concerning the handling of Designated Community-Based Service prescribed in Article 42-2, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act), the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in Article 111, paragraph (4) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to the part concerning the handling of service at an integrated facility for medical and long-term care prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (29) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act), the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in Article 115-2-2, paragraph (2) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to the part concerning the handling of Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Service prescribed in Article 53, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act), and the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in Article 115-12-2, paragraph (2) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to the part concerning the handling of Designated Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care prescribed in Article 54-2, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act), the Minister may hear the opinion of the Social Security Council even before the Effective Date.

Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding Article, the enactment or amendment of Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances necessary for the enforcement of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, the procedures for the designation, pursuant to Article 70, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act, under the main clause of Article 41, paragraph (1) of that Act (limited to those pertaining to an application by a person prescribed in Article 72-2, paragraph (1) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act), the procedures for the designation, pursuant to Article 78-2, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act, under the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) of that Act (limited to those pertaining to an application by a person prescribed in Article 78-2-2, paragraph (1) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act), the procedures for the approval under Article 107, paragraph (1) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, the procedures for the designation, pursuant to Article 115-2, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act, under the main clause of Article 53, paragraph (1) of that Act (limited to those pertaining to an application by a person prescribed in Article 115-2-2, paragraph (1) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act), the procedures for the designation, pursuant to Article 115-12, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act, under the main clause of Article 54-2, paragraph (1) of that Act (limited to those pertaining to an application by a person prescribed in Article 115-12-2, paragraph (1) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act), and other acts may be carried out before the Effective Date.

With regard to insurance benefits pertaining to In-Home Service (including services equivalent thereto), Community-Based Service (including services equivalent thereto), Facility Service, Preventive Long-Term Care Service (including services equivalent thereto), Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care (including services equivalent thereto) or Home Modification under the provisions of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (limited to the amending provisions listed in that item) that were provided before the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions (referred to as the "item (iii) Effective Date" in Article 22 of the Supplementary Provisions), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to conduct engaged in before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those respective provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) comes into effect and to conduct engaged in after this Act comes into effect in the case where the provisions then in force are to remain applicable 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, transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order.