This Act comes into effect on October 1, 1989; provided, however, that the provision amending the table of contents of the Employment Insurance Act in Article 1 (limited to the part replacing "Article 61-2" with "Article 62"), the provisions amending Articles 1 and 3 and Article 61-2, paragraph (1) of that Act, the provision deleting Article 62 of that Act and renumbering Article 61-2 of that Act as Article 62 of that Act, the provisions amending Article 65, Article 66, paragraph (3), item (iii) and paragraph (5), item (i), (b), and Article 68, paragraph (2) of that Act, the provisions of Article 2, and the provisions of Articles 3 and 4 and Articles 7 through 12 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on the date of promulgation.

①With regard to a person who became an insured person before the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as "the effective date") and who has been continuously employed in a covered undertaking by the same employer until the effective date, the provisions of Article 6, item (i)-2 of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as "the new Act") do not apply while the person continues to be employed in that covered undertaking on and after the effective date.

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (1), Article 14, paragraph (2), Article 37-3, paragraph (1) and Article 39, paragraph (1) of the new Act to the insured persons listed in the following items, the periods during which they were part-time workers as prescribed in each of those items are deemed to be periods during which they were insured persons other than part-time insured persons prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (1), item (i) of the new Act (hereinafter referred to as "part-time insured persons").

③With regard to a person who was once an insured person who was a part-time worker on the day before the effective date and has continuously been employed as a part-time worker in a covered undertaking by the same employer on the effective date (excluding a person who is an insured person listed in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph; hereinafter referred to as a "continuing part-time insured person"), and who has notified the chief of the Public Employment Security Office by the date specified by Ministry of Labour Order, the provisions of the new Act apply, as prescribed by Ministry of Labour Order, by deeming the period during which the person was a part-time worker from the effective date until the date the person wishes (limited to a date on or before the last day of that continuous period of employment (if the prescribed weekly working hours of that part-time worker have become shorter, on or after the effective date, than the hours that were that person's prescribed weekly working hours on the day before the effective date, the day before the day on which they became shorter)) to be a period during which the person was an insured person other than a part-time insured person.

④With regard to a continuing part-time insured person (excluding a person who has notified the chief of the Public Employment Security Office as prescribed in the preceding paragraph and whose separation from service occurred on or before the date the person wishes as prescribed in that paragraph), the provisions of Article 35-2 or Article 37-5 of the new Act apply by deeming the grounds listed in Article 35-2, paragraph (1), item (i) or Article 37-5, paragraph (1), item (i) of the new Act to have arisen on the effective date (for a person who has notified the chief of the Public Employment Security Office as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the day following the date the person wishes as prescribed in that paragraph).

⑤The provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1) of the new Act apply by deeming the table of daily amounts of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 16 of the new Act to have been established based on the average regular earnings prescribed in that paragraph for August 1984.

Beyond what is provided for in the preceding two Articles, transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.

The government is to, at an appropriate time after this Act comes into effect, take into consideration the status of enforcement of the provisions of the new Act concerning part-time insured persons, and, when it finds it necessary, review the provisions of the new Act and take necessary measures based on the results.