This Ministerial Order comes into effect as of the date of enforcement of the Act (April 1, 1975).

①For the application of Article 54 to a person who wishes to have the affairs concerning the basic allowance handled by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the area where the person wishes to find employment (excluding the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office; the same applies hereinafter), for the time being, the phrase "at the request of a qualified recipient" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "as determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, at the request of a qualified recipient"; the phrase "the Chief of another Public Employment Security Office" with "the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office who has jurisdiction over the area where that person wishes to find employment and who satisfies the requirements determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau"; the phrase "the provisions of this Subsection (excluding the provisions of Articles 19 and 20)" with "the provisions of this Subsection"; the phrase "'Chief of the Public Employment Security Office that received the entrustment'" with "'Chief of the Public Employment Security Office that received the entrustment pursuant to the provisions of Article 54 as read with replaced terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 1-2 of the Supplementary Provisions'"; and the phrase "'Public Employment Security Office that received the entrustment'" with "'Public Employment Security Office that received the entrustment pursuant to the provisions of Article 54 as read with replaced terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 1-2 of the Supplementary Provisions'".

②For the application of the provisions of Articles 62, 65, 65-5, 69, 101-2 and 101-2-17, Article 144-2, paragraph (1) and Article 32 of the Supplementary Provisions to a person to whom the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply, the phrases "and Article 54" in Articles 62, 101-2 and 101-2-17 and "and 54" in Article 32 of the Supplementary Provisions are deemed to be replaced with ", Article 54 and Article 1-2 of the Supplementary Provisions" and ", 54 and Article 1-2 of the Supplementary Provisions", respectively; the phrase "and Article 54" in Articles 65, 65-5 and 69 with ", Article 54 and Article 1-2 of the Supplementary Provisions"; the phrase "Article 130" in Article 144-2, paragraph (1) with "Article 130, Article 1-2 of the Supplementary Provisions"; and the phrase "Article 100-8, paragraph (1)" with "Article 100-8, paragraph (1), Article 1-2 of the Supplementary Provisions".

①An employer or insured person that, on or after January 1, 2016, has made a notification or performed procedures for application for payment set out in the following items may, for the time being, notwithstanding the provisions prescribed in those items, submit a notification of registration of Individual Number to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of the place of business, with regard to the Individual Number of the insured person pertaining to that notification or those procedures for application for payment.

②When an employer makes a notification set out in the following items concerning an insured person who is the subject of a notification of becoming an insured person under Article 6, paragraph (1) made on or before December 31, 2015, and who continues to be employed by that employer (excluding a case determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau as one in which the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office has ascertained the Individual Number of that insured person), the employer must, for the time being, also submit a notification of registration of Individual Number to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of the place of business.

For the application of Article 36 to a person whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification falls during the period from May 1, 2020 to the date determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the phrase "as follows" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "in addition to the fact that the person or a relative living with the person (including a person who has not filed a notification of marriage but is in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship with that person) has a disease that is likely to make the illness severe if that person is infected with the pathogen of the novel coronavirus infection (limited to one whose pathogen is a coronavirus of the genus Betacoronavirus (limited to one that, in January 2020, was newly reported by the People's Republic of China to the World Health Organization as having the capacity to be transmitted to humans); the same applies hereinafter), or any other reason determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, as follows".

①For the time being, in addition to what is provided for in Article 59, the commuting allowance under that Article is to be paid to a person who, because the distance from the qualified recipient's domicile or residence to the training facility, etc. is considerably long, temporarily stays at a lodging facility close to the training facility, etc. (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "lodging facility") and commutes from the lodging facility to the training facility, etc. (limited to a person for whom commuting is extremely difficult without using the lodging facility).

②The monthly amount of the commuting allowance for a person prescribed in the preceding paragraph is the total amount of the costs listed in the following items (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "total costs in the case of temporary lodging"); provided, however, that the amount listed in item (i) is to be paid up to one round trip throughout the period of taking public vocational training, etc., and where the total costs in the case of temporary lodging exceeds 42,500 yen, it is 42,500 yen.

③In calculating the amount listed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis. In this case, the phrase "amount equivalent to fares, etc." in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "lowest fare amount prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (i), (a) of the Supplementary Provisions".

④In calculating the amount listed in paragraph (2), item (ii), the provisions of Article 59, paragraphs (3) through (5) apply mutatis mutandis. In this case, the phrase "amount equivalent to fares, etc." in paragraphs (3) and (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "amount equivalent to fares for commuting from the lodging facility to the training facility prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (ii), (a) of the Supplementary Provisions".

For the application of Article 82-3, paragraph (2) to a person who took up employment during the period from March 31, 2009 to March 31, 2017, the phrase "as follows" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "in addition to a person who is found to have extreme difficulty in finding stable employment and who is under 40 years of age on the day on which the person took up the stable employment prescribed in the preceding paragraph, as follows".