I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendment to the Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-ninth day of the third month of the twenty-sixth year of Showa (March 29, 1951)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendment to the Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance Law
The Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance Law (Law No.50 of 1947) shall be partially amended as follows:
Article 27 shall be amended as follows:
Article 27. In individual undertakings employing one hundred workers or more for which three years have passed as of December 31 since the insurance relation came into force, when the ratio of insurance benefit to insurance premium (in case the undertaking concerned where more than five years have passed since the insurance relation came into force, the ratio of insurance benefit to insurance premium for the immediate past five years) is over 85 per cent or under 75 per cent, the competent Minister may apply the rate fixed by increasing or reducing the standard rate determined for undertakings in the same industry by the percentage specified by order within the extent of 30 per cent as the rate of insurance premium for the said undertakings for the next insurance year (meaning the insurance year referred to in the next Article).
Supplementary Provision:
This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation and shall apply as from December 31, 1950.