①Where an insured person or a person who was an insured person is a mariner prescribed in Article 6, item (v) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as a "mariner"), in Article 17-2, paragraphs (1) and (4), Article 17-3 and Article 17-4 (including where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 101-21), Article 21, paragraph (1), Article 24, paragraph (1), Article 32, Article 38-3, item (ii), Article 43, paragraph (1), Article 47, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 50, paragraph (3), Article 54, Article 57, paragraph (1), Article 75, paragraphs (1) through (3), (5) and (6), Article 76, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 81, paragraph (2), Article 81-2, paragraph (2), Article 82-2, Article 84, paragraph (1), Article 94, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 95, paragraph (2), Article 96, Article 97, paragraph (2), Article 98, paragraph (2), Article 99, paragraph (1), Article 100-2 and Article 130, the phrases "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office", "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office" and "Public Employment Security Office" are deemed to be replaced with "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office or District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)", "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office or the Chief of the District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)" and "Public Employment Security Office or District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)", respectively; in Article 18, the phrase "the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office" is deemed to be replaced with "the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office or of the District Transport Bureau having jurisdiction over the domicile or residence of the person subject to the affairs listed in Article 1, paragraph (5), item (i) (hereinafter referred to as the "competent District Transport Bureau") (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)"; in Article 19, Article 20, paragraph (2), Article 21, paragraph (1) and paragraphs (3) through (5), Article 22, Article 23, Article 25, paragraph (1), Article 26, paragraph (1), Article 27, paragraph (1), Article 28-2, paragraph (1), Article 29, Article 30, Article 31, paragraphs (1), (6) and (7), Article 31-3, paragraphs (1) and (3), Article 31-4, item (iii), Article 31-5, item (ii), Article 31-6, paragraphs (1), (4) and (5), Article 38, Article 38-6, Article 41, Article 42, Article 43, paragraph (2), Article 44, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 45, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 46, paragraph (1), Article 49, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 50, paragraph (1) (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article), paragraphs (3) and (4), Article 54, paragraphs (1) and (3), Article 61, paragraph (2), Article 63, paragraph (2), Article 64, Article 65-4, Article 68, Article 70, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 76, paragraphs (3) and (4), Article 78, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 79, paragraphs (1) through (5), Article 81, paragraph (3), Article 81-2, paragraph (3), Article 82-5, paragraph (1), Article 83, Article 83-4, paragraph (1), Article 83-5, Article 84, paragraph (1), Article 85, Article 86, Article 92, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 93, Article 97, paragraph (2), Article 99, paragraphs (1) through (3), Article 100, Article 100-4, paragraph (1), Article 100-5, Article 100-8, paragraph (1) and Article 23 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrases "competent Public Employment Security Office" and "the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office" are deemed to be replaced with "competent Public Employment Security Office or competent District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)" and "the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office or competent District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)", respectively; in Article 28, paragraph (1), the phrase "at the competent Public Employment Security Office" is deemed to be replaced with "at the competent Public Employment Security Office or competent District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)" and the phrase "the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office" with "the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office or competent District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)"; in Article 31-2, the phrase "60 years" is deemed to be replaced with "50 years"; in Article 35, item (ii), the phrase "a person who has separated from service because a notification of a large fluctuation in employment pertaining to separation under Article 27, paragraph (1) of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives (Act No. 132 of 1966) was made at a place of business" is deemed to be replaced with "a person who has separated from service because the number of insured persons separating from service owing to the convenience of the shipowner has come to be 30 or more within a period of one month", and the phrase "hereinafter the same in this Article) separated from service" with "hereinafter the same in this Article) separated from service or a person who has separated from service owing to the occurrence of other reasons equivalent to these that the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office or District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) finds"; in item (iv) of that Article, the phrase "relocation of a place of business" is deemed to be replaced with "change in the place to board a ship"; in Article 36, the phrase "The reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 23, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Act are" is deemed to be replaced with "The reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 23, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Act are that the person has separated from service owing to the loss of nationality of the ship on which the insured person is aboard, or"; in item (v), (a) of that Article, the phrase "the number of hours equivalent to the maximum of overtime prescribed in Article 36, paragraph (3) of the Labor Standards Act (or, where the qualified recipient is a worker raising a child who has not yet reached the start of elementary school as prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Childcare and Caregiver Leave Act and does not fall under any of the items of that paragraph, the number of hours equivalent to the limit on overtime prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1) of that Act, and where the qualified recipient is a worker who takes care of an applicable family member requiring caregiving as prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (1) of that Act and does not fall under any of the items of Article 17, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (1) of that Act, the number of hours equivalent to the limit on overtime prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1) of that Act)" is deemed to be replaced with "the number of hours equivalent to the number of hours prescribed in the standards concerning the limits on the extension of working hours provided for in the agreement under Article 64-2, paragraph (1) of the Mariners Act (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Public Notice No. 294 of 2009)"; in item (x) of that Article, the phrase "an absence from work at the place of business for reasons attributable to the employer" is deemed to be replaced with "the period (excluding days off) of being a reserve mariner prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Mariners Act (Act No. 100 of 1947) (hereinafter referred to as a "reserve mariner")"; in Article 75, paragraph (4), the phrase "Chief of the Public Employment Security Office" is deemed to be replaced with "Chief of the Public Employment Security Office or Chief of the District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)"; in Article 81, paragraph (1) and Article 81-2, paragraph (1), the phrase "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of the place of business of that covered undertaking of the same employer, or to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office" is deemed to be replaced with "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office or District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) having jurisdiction over the location of the place of business of that covered undertaking of the same employer, or to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office or competent District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)"; in Article 82, paragraphs (1) and (2), the phrase "Public Employment Security Office or" is deemed to be replaced with "Public Employment Security Office or District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism), or"; in paragraph (1) of that Article, the phrase "(hereinafter" is deemed to be replaced with "or the specified local government prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (4) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act (Act No. 130 of 1948) (hereinafter collectively", the phrase "paragraph (10) of that Article" with "Article 4, paragraph (10) of the Employment Security Act", and the phrase "; the same applies hereinafter" with ", or the free mariner employment placement service provider prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (5) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act; except in Article 110, the same applies hereinafter"; in Article 86, the phrase "Public Employment Security Office, a specified local government" is deemed to be replaced with "Public Employment Security Office, a District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism), a specified local government"; in Article 86 and Article 95, paragraph (1), the phrase "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office" is deemed to be replaced with "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office or Chief of the District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)"; in Article 95, paragraph (1), the phrase "by a Public Employment Security Office" is deemed to be replaced with "by a Public Employment Security Office or District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)" and the phrase "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office" with "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office or Chief of the District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)"; and in Article 101-16, item (iii), (b), the phrase "Article 65, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Labor Standards Act" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 87, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Mariners Act".

②In the case of an employer that hires a mariner as a worker to be continuously employed or as a worker employed for a fixed term, or an employer that implements measures to promote the career advancement of dispatched mariners prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (14) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act (Act No. 130 of 1948), in Article 110, paragraph (2), item (i), (a), the phrase "Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc." is deemed to be replaced with "Public Employment Security Office, District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and Transport Branch Offices and offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or Transport Branch Offices that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; the same applies hereinafter, except in Article 15-5 of the Supplementary Provisions) or a mariner employment placement service provider, etc. (meaning employment placement service providers, etc. or the specified local government prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (4) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act (Act No. 130 of 1948) and the free mariner employment placement service provider prescribed in paragraph (5) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter)" and the phrase "hires a person referred by a Public Employment Security Office" with "hires a person referred by a Public Employment Security Office or District Transport Bureau"; in item (i), (a), (15) of that paragraph, the phrase "Chief of the Public Employment Security Office" is deemed to be replaced with "Chief of the Public Employment Security Office or Chief of the District Transport Bureau"; in paragraph (7), item (i), (a) of that Article, paragraph (9), item (i), (a) of that Article and paragraph (10), item (i), (a) of that Article, Article 110-3, paragraph (2), item (i), (a) and paragraph (3), item (i), and Article 112, paragraph (2), item (i), (c), item (ii), (c), item (iii), (a), (3) and item (iv), (c), the phrase "Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc." is deemed to be replaced with "Public Employment Security Office, District Transport Bureau or a mariner employment placement service provider, etc."; in item (ii), (c) of that paragraph, the phrase "; the same applies hereinafter)" is deemed to be replaced with "; the same applies hereinafter) or dispatched mariner (meaning a dispatched mariner prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (14) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act; the same applies hereinafter)"; in Article 118-2, paragraphs (2), (4) and (5), the phrase "dispatched worker" is deemed to be replaced with "dispatched worker or dispatched mariner"; in paragraph (2), item (i), (c), (6) of that Article, the phrase "with a staffing provider" is deemed to be replaced with "with a staffing provider or mariner staffing provider (meaning the mariner staffing provider prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (16) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act; the same applies in (7) and (8))" and the phrase "that staffing provider" with "that staffing provider or mariner staffing provider"; in (c), (7) and (8) of that item, the phrase "staffing provider" is deemed to be replaced with "staffing provider or mariner staffing provider"; and in Article 15-5 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "employment placement service provider, etc." is deemed to be replaced with "mariner employment placement service provider, etc.".