①When a qualified recipient who falls under Article 15, paragraph (4), item (i) of the Act seeks to receive recognition of unemployment by submitting a certificate, the recipient must appear at the competent Public Employment Security Office on the first day of recognition of unemployment after the reason has ceased, and submit, attaching the qualified recipient's certificate (or, where the qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, presenting the Individual Number Card), a certificate of a physician or other person who handled the medical treatment, stating the matters listed in the following items:

②The provisions of the proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

①When a qualified recipient who falls under Article 15, paragraph (4), item (ii) of the Act seeks to receive recognition of unemployment by submitting a certificate, the recipient must appear at the competent Public Employment Security Office on the first day of recognition of unemployment after having interviewed a job offerer, and submit, attaching the qualified recipient's certificate (or, where the qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, presenting the Individual Number Card), a certificate of that job offerer stating the matters listed in the following items:

②The provisions of the proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

①When a qualified recipient who falls under Article 15, paragraph (4), item (iii) of the Act seeks to receive recognition of unemployment by submitting a certificate, the qualified recipient must submit a certificate of attendance at public vocational training, etc. (Form No. 15; hereinafter referred to as a "certificate of attendance" in this Section) to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office.

②The provisions of Article 17-2, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

①When a qualified recipient who falls under Article 15, paragraph (4), item (iv) of the Act seeks to receive recognition of unemployment by submitting a certificate, the recipient must appear at the competent Public Employment Security Office on the first day of recognition of unemployment after the reason has ceased, and submit, attaching the qualified recipient's certificate (or, where the qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, presenting the Individual Number Card), a certificate from a public agency or a certificate of a person whom the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office finds appropriate, stating the matters listed in the following items:

②The provisions of the proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

①In recognizing unemployment, the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office is to confirm the details of the job-seeking activities stated in the written declaration for recognition of unemployment submitted under Article 22, paragraph (1).

②If the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office finds it necessary in relation to the recognition under the preceding paragraph, the Chief may order a qualified recipient to submit a driver's license or other document by which the identity of a person seeking to receive payment of the basic allowance can be confirmed.

③When confirming under paragraph (1), the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office is to provide employment placement or vocational guidance to the qualified recipient.

①The rate specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Act is the rate that remains when the rate obtained by multiplying the rate set out in item (i) by the rate set out in item (ii) is deducted from 80/100.

②With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a qualified recipient who is 60 years of age or older and under 65 on the day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification, in that paragraph, "Article 16, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 16, paragraph (1) as applied with replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article", "is deducted from 80/100" is deemed to be replaced with "is deducted from 80/100 (where the amount obtained by multiplying that rate by the daily amount of wages prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the "daily amount of wages" in this paragraph) exceeds the amount obtained by adding the amount obtained by multiplying 40/100 by 10,880 yen (where that amount has been changed under the provisions of Article 18 of the Act, the amount as changed; hereinafter the same in this paragraph) to the amount obtained by multiplying 5/100 by the daily amount of wages, the rate obtained by dividing that amount by that daily amount of wages)", "30/100" is deemed to be replaced with "35/100", "the daily amount of wages prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Act" is deemed to be replaced with "the daily amount of wages", and "12,090 yen" is deemed to be replaced with "10,880 yen".

The average earnings for a fiscal year under Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Act are the amount obtained by dividing by 12 the total amount of the average regular earnings prescribed in that paragraph for each month from April to March of the following year.

The minimum wage daily amount prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3) of the Act is the amount obtained by dividing by 7 the amount obtained by multiplying by 20 the amount calculated by taking the weighted average, by the number of workers, of the amounts for each fixed region of the regional minimum wages prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Minimum Wage Act (Act No. 137 of 1959) that are in effect on April 1 of the fiscal year to which the amount subject to automatic changing as changed under Article 18, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Act applies.

①The notification that a qualified recipient makes under Article 19, paragraph (3) of the Act must be made to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office by means of a written declaration for recognition of unemployment, on the first day of recognition of unemployment after the day on which that person came to earn income from the person's own labor.

②If the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office finds it necessary to conduct an investigation in order to confirm whether a qualified recipient who has not made the notification under the preceding paragraph has had income from labor prescribed in Article 19 of the Act, the Chief may defer the decision on payment of the basic allowance for the days for which unemployment was recognized on the day of recognition of unemployment referred to in that paragraph until the next day on which the basic allowance is to be paid (hereinafter referred to as the "payment day" in this Section).

The reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Act are as follows.

①The application under Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Act is to be made by submitting a written application for extension, etc. of the benefit period (Form No. 16) to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office, attaching a certificate from a physician or other documents capable of proving that the person falls under the reasons prescribed in that paragraph, and the qualified recipient's certificate (where the qualified recipient's certificate has not been issued (excluding where a notice of recipient qualification has been issued), the separation slip (where two or more separation slips are held, all of them); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) (and, where the person making the application has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, presenting the Individual Number Card together with attaching those documents).

②Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, a qualified recipient may, in addition to the case prescribed in the proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (8), omit attaching the qualified recipient's certificate (or, where the qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, presenting the Individual Number Card), as specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau.

③The application under paragraph (1) must be made during the period from the day following the day on which the person concerned came to fall under the persons prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Act until the day on which four years elapse counting from the day following the basis day prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph immediately preceding the day on which the person came to fall under those persons (where the period after the addition under that paragraph is less than four years, until the last day of that period); provided, however, that this does not apply where there is an unavoidable reason, such as a natural disaster, for not having made the application.

④The application under paragraph (1) in the case of the proviso to the preceding paragraph must be made within seven days counting from the day following the day on which that reason ceased.

⑤For the application under paragraph (1) in the case of the proviso to paragraph (3), documents capable of proving the unavoidable reason, such as a natural disaster, for not having made the application must be attached to the written application for extension, etc. of the benefit period.

⑥When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office finds that a person who has made the application under paragraph (1) falls under the persons prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Act, the Chief must issue to that person a written notice of extension, etc. of the benefit period (Form No. 17). In this case (excluding where the application under paragraph (1) is received without the qualified recipient's certificate attached pursuant to paragraph (2), or to the proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (8) (excluding where the person who made the application has made that submission without attaching the qualified recipient's certificate because the person was issued a notice of recipient qualification)), the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office must, after entering the necessary particulars in the qualified recipient's certificate, return it (or, where that person has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, after entering the necessary particulars in the notice of recipient qualification, issue it).

⑦A person who has been issued a written notice of extension, etc. of the benefit period under the preceding paragraph must, if falling under any of the following items, promptly report that fact to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office and submit the documents listed in that item (and, where that person has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, also present the Individual Number Card). In this case, the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office must, after entering the necessary particulars in the documents submitted, return them (or, in the case prescribed in item (ii) where that person has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, after entering the necessary particulars in the written notice of extension, etc. of the benefit period submitted, return it, and after entering the necessary particulars in the notice of recipient qualification, issue it).

⑧The provisions of Article 17-2, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases of paragraph (1) and the preceding paragraph and to the application under paragraph (1) in the case of the proviso to paragraph (3), and the provisions of the proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases of paragraph (1) and the preceding paragraph.