①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must hear the opinions of the Labor Policy Council in advance when seeking to establish the standards referred to in Article 24-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 25, paragraph (1), or Article 27, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) by Cabinet Order; when seeking to establish, by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the reasons referred to in Article 13, paragraph (1), Article 20, paragraph (1) or (2), Article 22, paragraph (2), Article 37-3, paragraph (1), Article 39, paragraph (1), Article 60-3, paragraph (1), item (i) or paragraph (3), Article 61-4, paragraph (1), Article 61-7, paragraph (1) (including as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (4) of the same Article), Article 61-8, paragraph (1), Article 61-10, paragraph (1), item (i) (including as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (5) of the same Article) or Article 61-12, paragraph (1) (including as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (4) of the same Article), the persons referred to in Article 13, paragraph (3), Article 20-2 or Article 24-2, paragraph (1), the calculation method referred to in Article 18, paragraph (3), the business referred to in Article 20-2, the standards referred to in Article 24-2, paragraph (1) or Article 56-3, paragraph (1), the disaster referred to in Article 24-2, paragraph (1), item (iii), the number of hours referred to in Article 37-5, paragraph (1), item (iii), the persons who have difficulty in finding employment as referred to in Article 56-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), the cases referred to in Article 61-7, paragraph (2) or Article 61-10, paragraph (3), item (ii), or the day referred to in Article 61-7, paragraph (1) as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (4) of the same Article, Article 61-10, paragraph (1), item (i) as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (5) of the same Article, or Article 61-12, paragraph (1) as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (4) of the same Article; when seeking to specify the standards referred to in Article 10-4, paragraph (1), Article 25, paragraph (3), Article 26, paragraph (2), Article 29, paragraph (2), Article 32, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 37-4, paragraph (6) and Article 40, paragraph (4)), Article 33, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 37-4, paragraph (6) and Article 40, paragraph (4)), or Article 52, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55, paragraph (4)), or the number of hours referred to in Article 38, paragraph (1), item (ii); or when making decisions on other important matters pertaining to the implementation of this Act.

②In addition to responding to consultations from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare's, the Labor Policy Council may, as necessary, make proposals to the relevant administrative authorities, or may require their reports, concerning the administration of the employment insurance services.

An employer may not dismiss workers or treat them in a disadvantageous manner on the grounds of their having required confirmation under the provisions of Article 8 or having made an application under the provisions of Article 37-5, paragraph (1).

①The right to receive payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc. and childcare leave benefits, etc., or to obtain a refund of the benefits and the right to collect an amount which has been ordered to be paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 10-4, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61-6, paragraph (5)) is extinguished by prescription when two years have elapsed from the time when those rights become exercisable.

②If, due to the revision of the average earnings for a fiscal year, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has changed the amount subject to automatic changing prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (4), the deduction amount prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1), item (i), or the payment amount limit prescribed in Article 61, paragraph (1), item (ii) or Article 61-12, paragraph (2), and there are benefits for unemployment, etc. and childcare leave benefits, etc. whose amounts have been recalculated due to the change, the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Public Accounting Act (Act No. 35 of 1947) do not apply to the right to receive payment of the unpaid benefits for unemployment, etc. and childcare leave benefits, etc. under the provisions of Article 10-3 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61-6, paragraph (5)) pertaining to those benefits for unemployment, etc. and childcare leave benefits, etc.

The mayor of municipality (including the mayor of a special ward, and, in the designated cities referred to in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), the mayor of a ward or the mayor of a comprehensive ward), as prescribed by the ordinance of the municipality (including a special ward), may issue a certificate concerning the family register of a person who receives payment of the job applicant benefits or employment promotion benefits to the administrative authority or to the person who receives payment of the job applicant benefits or employment promotion benefits, free of charge.

①An administrative authority may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order an employer who is found to employ or to have employed insured persons or qualified recipients, elderly qualified recipients, specially qualified recipients or qualified day worker recipients (hereinafter referred to as "qualified recipients, etc.") or educational training benefit recipients, a labor insurance affairs association or an organization that was a labor insurance affairs association, to make a report, submit a document or make an appearance as may be necessary for the implementation of this Act.

②An administrative authority may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order an employer who seeks to employ qualified recipients, etc., an employment placement service provider, etc. who conducts employment placement services or vocational guidance for qualified recipients, etc., a person engaged in the business of providing recruitment information, etc., or a practitioner of specified educational training who conducts the educational training prescribed in Article 60-2, paragraph (1) for educational training benefit recipients, to make a report or submit a document as may be necessary for the implementation of this Act.

③Those who have been separated from service may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, request a previous employer or a labor insurance affairs association conducting affairs concerning the issuance of certificates necessary for receiving payment of the job applicant benefits, as a part of the labor insurance-related affairs prescribed in Article 33, paragraph (1) of the Premiums Collection Act, to issue a certificate necessary for receiving payment of the job applicant benefits. The employer or labor insurance affairs association when so required, must issue the certificate as required.

④The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a request concerning the issuance of certificates necessary for receiving payment of the educational training benefits, continuous employment benefits or childcare leave benefits, etc. In this case, the phrases "those who have been separated from service" and "previous employer" in the preceding paragraph are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "insured persons or those who were insured persons" and "employer who employed the insured persons or those who were insured persons".

An administrative authority may order an insured person, qualified recipient, etc., educational training benefit recipient, or person requiring payment of the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. and childcare leave benefits, etc., to make a report, submit a document or make an appearance, as may be necessary for the implementation of this Act.

①An administrative authority may request the relevant administrative organs or public or private organizations to provide materials or otherwise cooperate as necessary for the implementation of this Act.

②The relevant administrative organs or public or private organizations requested to cooperate pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must meet requests to the fullest extent possible.

An administrative authority may, when it finds it necessary for paying the job applicant benefits, order a person who obtains or seeks to obtain the recognition of unemployment prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (2) pursuant to the provisions of item (i) of the same paragraph, a person who has made a request pursuant to the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (1) or a person who receives or seeks to receive payment of the injury and disease allowance, to undergo diagnosis by a designated physician.

①An administrative authority may, when it finds it necessary for the implementation of this Act, have its officials enter the place of business which belongs to the employer who is found to employ or to have employed an insured person, qualified recipient, etc., or educational training benefit recipient or the office of the labor insurance affairs association or the office of the organization which was a labor insurance affairs association, and question the persons concerned or inspect the books and documents (in the case where electronic or magnetic record (meaning record produced by an electronic form, magnetic form or any other form that cannot be perceived by human senses, which are used for information processing by a computer) are prepared and kept in lieu of those books and documents, including the electronic or magnetic record).

②The official who enters and makes an inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, must carry an identification card and present it to the persons concerned.

③The authority to conduct on-site inspections under the provisions of paragraph (1) may not be construed as being granted for criminal investigation.

With regard to the unemployment of a person who is a mariner, the phrase "又は業として" (or ... in the course of trade) in Article 10-4, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "若しくは業として" (or, joining a smaller group of alternatives, ... in the course of trade), and the phrase "excluding Public Employment Security Offices and other employment security agencies)" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "excluding Public Employment Security Offices and other employment security agencies), or a specified local public entity prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (4) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act, a free mariner employment placement business operator prescribed in paragraph (5) of the same Article, or a person who conducts, in the course of trade, the vocational guidance prescribed in paragraph (6) of the same Article (limited to guidance conducted in accordance with the aptitude, vocational experiences and other actual circumstances of a person seeking to become a mariner) (excluding District Transport Bureaus (including Transport Supervision Departments, District Transport Offices, and the offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or District Transport Offices; the same applies in Article 15, paragraph (5)) and the Mariners' Employment Promotion Center (meaning the Mariners' Employment Promotion Center prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Act on Special Measures concerning Employment Promotion of Mariners; the same applies hereinafter))"; the terms "Public Employment Security Office" and "chief of the Public Employment Security Office" in Article 15, paragraphs (2) through (4), Article 19, paragraph (3), Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 20-2, Article 21, Article 24, Article 24-2, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 29, paragraph (2), Article 30, Article 31, paragraph (2), Article 32, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 33, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 36, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 37, paragraphs (1), (2) and (7), Article 37-3, paragraph (2), Article 37-4, paragraph (5), Article 39, paragraph (2), Article 40, paragraphs (3) and (4), Article 41, paragraph (1), Article 47, paragraph (2), Article 51, paragraph (1), Article 52, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 53, paragraph (1), Article 56-3, paragraph (1) and Article 59, paragraph (1) are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "Public Employment Security Office or District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and the District Transport Offices and the offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or District Transport Offices designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)" and "chief of the Public Employment Security Office or Director of the District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and the District Transport Offices and the offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or District Transport Offices designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)"; the phrase "given pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations, for assisting unemployed persons" in Article 15, paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "given for assisting unemployed persons"; the term "employment security agencies" in paragraph (5) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "employment security agencies, District Transport Bureaus, specified local public entities prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (4) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act, the Mariners' Employment Promotion Center"; the terms "the Public Employment Security Office" and "the chief of the Public Employment Security Office" in Article 29, paragraph (1), Article 32, paragraph (1), Article 43, paragraph (1), item (i) and Article 58, paragraph (1) are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "the Public Employment Security Office or District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and the District Transport Offices and the offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or District Transport Offices designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)" and "the chief of the Public Employment Security Office or Director of the District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and the District Transport Offices and the offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or District Transport Offices designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)"; the term "the Public Employment Security Office" as the one conducting vocational guidance in Article 29, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the Public Employment Security Office or District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and the District Transport Offices and the offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or District Transport Offices designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)"; the term "place of business" in Article 32, paragraph (1), item (iv) and Article 52, paragraph (1), item (iii) is deemed to be replaced with "place of business or vessel falling under the provisions of Article 22 (excluding the proviso of paragraph (2)) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act"; and in Article 58, paragraph (1), the phrase "a specified local public entity prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (9) of the Employment Security Act" is deemed to be replaced with "a District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and the District Transport Offices and the offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or District Transport Offices designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism), a specified local public entity prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (9) of the Employment Security Act, a specified local public entity prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (4) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act", the term "the same Act" with "the Employment Security Act", and the phrase "the chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds" with "the chief of the Public Employment Security Office or Director of the District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and the District Transport Offices and the offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or District Transport Offices designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) finds".

The chief of the Public Employment Security Office or the Director of the District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and the District Transport Offices and the offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or District Transport Offices designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) who receives an application for employment pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2) (including as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article) may, when finding it necessary, entrust the recognition of unemployment to another chief of a Public Employment Security Office or Director of a District Transport Bureau.

When Cabinet Order or Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is established, amended or repealed based on this Act, necessary transitional measures may be established by the Cabinet Order or Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, respectively, within the limit deemed to be reasonably necessary. The same applies when the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare specifies, amends or repeals the amount subject to automatic changing referred to in Article 18, paragraph (4) and other matters.

①Part of the authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare provided for in this Act may be delegated to the Prefectural Labor Director, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

②The authority delegated to the Prefectural Labor Director pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be delegated to the chief of the Public Employment Security Office, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Beyond what is provided for in this Act, procedures necessary for the implementation of this Act and other matters are prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.