The period for which a worker who has filed an application for childcare leave may take that childcare leave (hereinafter referred to as the "period of childcare leave") is between the scheduled start date for childcare leave and the scheduled end date for childcare leave (or, in cases where the scheduled end date for childcare leave is changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (3), the changed scheduled end date for childcare leave; the same applies in the following paragraph).
In cases where any of the circumstances listed in the following items occurs, the period of childcare leave ends on the day on which the relevant circumstance occurs (or, in cases where the circumstance set forth in item (iii) occurs, the preceding day), notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph:
on or before the day preceding the scheduled end date for childcare leave, there are reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as to why the worker comes to cease childcare subject to the application for childcare leave, such as the death of the child;
on or before the day preceding the scheduled end date for childcare leave, a child subject to the application for childcare leave reaches one year of age (or one year and six months of age with regard to childcare leave for which an application was filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (3), and two years of age with regard to childcare leave for which an application was filed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article); or
on or before the scheduled end date for childcare leave, a period of leave pursuant to the provisions of Article 65, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 49 of 1947), a period of parental leave prescribed in Article 9-5, paragraph (1) of this Act, a period of caregiver leave prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1) of this Act, or a new period of childcare leave has begun with regard to a worker who has filed the application for childcare leave.
The provisions of the second sentence of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to cases where there are reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare provided for in item (i) of the preceding paragraph.