Article 65-8Notification Specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 37-5, paragraph (2) of the Act

①The notification under Article 37-5, paragraph (2) of the Act is to be made, when a special elderly insured person has ceased to satisfy the requirements of the items of paragraph (1) of that Article, within 10 days counting from the day following the day on which that fact occurred, by submitting to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office a written notification stating the matters listed in the following items, accompanied by a written contract pertaining to the labor contract, a roster of workers, a wage ledger, a certificate of registered information or other documents that can prove the fact of having ceased to satisfy those requirements and the date on which that fact occurred.

②A person who makes the notification under the preceding paragraph must, where the reason for having ceased to satisfy the requirements of the items of Article 37-5, paragraph (1) of the Act is separation from service, attach to the written notification prescribed in the preceding paragraph, in addition to the documents prescribed in that paragraph, the documents specified in each of the following items according to the following categories of persons; provided, however, that this does not apply where the special elderly insured person does not wish to be issued a separation slip when the written notification prescribed in that paragraph is submitted.

③Notwithstanding the preceding two paragraphs, a person who makes the notification under paragraph (1) may, as specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, omit attaching the documents prescribed in those paragraphs.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), when a special elderly insured person has ceased to be a special elderly insured person because of death or another unavoidable reason specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, the employer that employs the special elderly insured person must submit the written notification prescribed in that paragraph within 10 days counting from the day following the day on which that fact occurred.

⑤When an employer is requested by a person who intends to make the notification under the provisions of paragraph (1) to give the certification necessary for making that notification, the employer must give the certification promptly.

⑥The provisions of Article 11 and Article 17 apply mutatis mutandis to the written notification prescribed in paragraph (1). In this case, the phrase "having become or ceased to be an insured person" in Article 11, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "having ceased to be a special elderly insured person", and the phrase "employer that made" is deemed to be replaced with "employer pertaining to".