①An insured person who intends to receive payment of childcare leave benefits for the first time must, by the end of the month containing the day on which four months have passed counting from the first day of the payment unit period prescribed in Article 61-7, paragraph (5) of the Act, submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business, via the employer, a written application stating the insured person's name, address or residence, insured person number and Individual Number, the date of birth of the child pertaining to the childcare leave application, the first day and last day of the payment unit period, the number of days worked during the payment unit period, the amount of wages paid in the payment unit period, and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "childcare leave-related benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare leave benefits / post-birth leave support benefits application" in this Article and Article 101-42), attaching a wage certification slip at the commencement of leave, etc., the maternal and child health handbook under Article 16 of the Maternal and Child Health Act (Act No. 141 of 1965) (hereinafter referred to as the "maternal and child health handbook" in Article 101-33 and Article 101-48), a roster of workers, a wage ledger, and other documents capable of proving the existence of the child pertaining to the leave under Article 101-22 (including as applied with replaced terms in Article 101-27; the same applies in paragraph (11)), the fact that the insured person is employed, the plan for continued employment after the end of that leave (limited to persons employed for a fixed period), the status of payment of wages, and the amount of wages; provided, however, that where it is difficult, for an unavoidable reason, to submit that written application via the employer, it may be submitted without going via the employer.

②When the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds that an insured person who has submitted the childcare leave-related benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare leave benefits / post-birth leave support benefits application pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph falls under Article 61-7, paragraph (1) of the Act, the Chief must notify that insured person to the effect that childcare leave benefits are to be paid for the payment unit period pertaining to that application for payment, and must also determine the period in which that person is to file an application for payment of childcare leave benefits for a payment unit period (excluding a payment unit period pertaining to an application for payment already made; the same applies in paragraph (4)), and inform that person of it.

③In determining the period for filing an application for payment prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office must determine it, for one payment unit period or two consecutive payment unit periods, within a scope up to the end of the month containing the day on which four months have passed counting from the first day of that payment unit period; provided, however, that this does not apply where the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds it necessary.

④When an insured person who has received the notice under the provisions of paragraph (2) intends to receive payment of childcare leave benefits for a payment unit period, the insured person must, within the period in which the procedure for payment of childcare leave benefits prescribed in the preceding paragraph is to be carried out, submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business, via the employer, a written application stating the insured person's name, insured person number and Individual Number, the date of birth of the child pertaining to the childcare leave application, the first day and last day of the payment unit period, the number of days worked during the payment unit period, the amount of wages paid in the payment unit period, and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "childcare leave benefits application" in this Article); provided, however, that where it is difficult, for an unavoidable reason, to submit that written application via the employer, it may be submitted without going via the employer.

⑤The provisions of paragraph (2) through the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to an insured person who has submitted a childcare leave benefits application pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (including as applied mutatis mutandis in this paragraph).

⑥When an insured person intends to receive payment of childcare leave benefits for a payment unit period, if, in that payment unit period, the insured person falls under any of the cases set out in the following items, the insured person must, when submitting the childcare leave-related benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare leave benefits / post-birth leave support benefits application or the childcare leave benefits application, state in that written application that the person falls under any of those items, and attach, according to the category into which the person falls, documents capable of proving the grounds specified respectively therein:

⑦Notwithstanding paragraph (1) and the preceding paragraph, an insured person may, as provided by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, omit attaching the documents prescribed in them.

⑧A notification under paragraph (1) (limited to one submitted via the employer) is, where that employer is the employer of a place of business of a specified corporation, to be made by submitting the matters to be stated in the childcare leave-related benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare leave benefits / post-birth leave support benefits application and in the documents prescribed in that paragraph, using an electronic data processing system, in lieu of submitting those documents; provided, however, that this does not apply where it is found difficult to use an electronic data processing system due to a breakdown of a telecommunications line, a disaster or other reason, and where it is found that the notification can be made without using an electronic data processing system.

⑨The provisions of paragraph (7) apply mutatis mutandis to the case of the preceding paragraph.

⑩A notification under paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis with replaced terms in paragraph (5)) (limited to one submitted via the employer) is, where that employer is the employer of a place of business of a specified corporation, to be made by submitting the matters to be stated in the childcare leave benefits application, using an electronic data processing system, in lieu of submitting the childcare leave benefits application; provided, however, that this does not apply where it is found difficult to use an electronic data processing system due to a breakdown of a telecommunications line, a disaster or other reason, and where it is found that the notification can be made without using an electronic data processing system.

⑪An insured person who, before the first day of the period during which the person took the leave pertaining to the notification under paragraph (1), had taken leave under Article 101-22 for the child pertaining to that notification must, before that notification, make the notification under that paragraph pertaining to that leave.

In the case where an insured person takes leave that satisfies all of the following items (limited to leave for which, of the number of days obtained by totaling as prescribed in Article 61-8, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Act, the number of days that the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds the person to be working is 10 days (where that aggregated number of days is less than 28 days, the number of days obtained by multiplying 10 days by the rate obtained by dividing that aggregated number of days by 28 days (rounded up where there is a fraction of less than one day); where exceeding that number of days, the number of hours that the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds the person to be working is 80 hours (where that aggregated number of days is less than 28 days, the number of hours obtained by multiplying 80 hours by that rate)) or less), parental leave benefits are paid: