This Act comes into effect on April 1, 1995; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items:

With regard to the daily amount of the basic allowance, the daily amount of wages and the automatic changing of the daily amount of the basic allowance for a qualified recipient of the basic allowance whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification is before the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as "the effective date") (hereinafter referred to as a "former qualified recipient") and whose first day of receiving payment of the basic allowance based on that recipient qualification is before August 1, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as a "former qualified recipient subject to the old daily amount"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①With regard to the automatic changing of the daily amount of the basic allowance in fiscal year 1995, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "new Employment Insurance Act"), when the average earnings for the fiscal year starting on April 1, 1994 have exceeded or fallen below the average regular earnings for June 1991 (if the table of daily amounts of the basic allowance has been revised pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act prior to its amendment by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "former Employment Insurance Act"), the average regular earnings that were the basis of that revision), the Minister of Labour must change the amount subject to automatic changing prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3) of the new Employment Insurance Act on and after August 1, 1995 in accordance with the rate of that increase or decrease. In this case, the change of the amount subject to automatic changing prescribed in that paragraph is, with regard to the application of the provisions of Chapter III of the new Employment Insurance Act, deemed to be a change of the amount subject to automatic changing prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3) of the new Employment Insurance Act under the provisions of that Article.

②If the amount subject to automatic changing referred to in the preceding paragraph as changed pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph includes a fraction of less than 5 yen, the fraction is to be rounded down, and if it includes a fraction of 5 yen or more and less than 10 yen, the fraction is to be rounded up to 10 yen.

①With regard to the prescribed duration of benefits and the number of days of individual extended benefits for former qualified recipients, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②With regard to a qualified recipient whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification (hereinafter referred to as "the basis day" in this paragraph) falls within the period from the effective date to March 31, 2000 (limited to a person who is 55 years of age or more and less than 60 years of age on the effective date), who falls under each of the following items, and whom the chief of the Public Employment Security Office has found to be a person who has difficulty in finding employment in light of the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the basic allowance may be paid beyond the prescribed duration of benefits, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 22-2 of the new Employment Insurance Act, for the days of unemployment within the period under the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Employment Insurance Act. In this case, the number of days for which the basic allowance is paid beyond the prescribed duration of benefits is to be limited to the number of days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare within a range not exceeding 60 days.

③With regard to a qualified recipient who falls under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the phrase "prescribed duration of benefits" in Article 23, paragraph (1), Article 24, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 25, paragraph (1) and Article 27, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with "number of days obtained by adding the number of days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 57 of 1994) to the prescribed duration of benefits".

With regard to public vocational training, etc. directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office before the effective date, the provisions of the proviso to Article 33, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 37-4, paragraph (5) of the new Employment Insurance Act) do not apply.

The daily amount of the injury and disease allowance for former qualified recipients subject to the old daily amount is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (3) of the new Employment Insurance Act, the amount equivalent to the daily amount of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions.

With regard to the amount of the job applicant benefits for the elderly for elderly qualified recipients whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification for the elderly is before the effective date (hereinafter referred to as "former elderly qualified recipients"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the payment of the job applicant benefits for former elderly qualified recipients who receive payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of Article 37-6 of the former Employment Insurance Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern; provided, however, that the daily amount of the basic allowance for former elderly qualified recipients for whom the first day on which they receive payment of the basic allowance based on the recipient qualification acquired by being deemed to be qualified recipients pursuant to the provisions of that Article is on or after August 1, 1996 is calculated by applying the provisions of Articles 16 through 18 of the new Employment Insurance Act.

The application of the provisions of Article 40 of the new Employment Insurance Act to specially qualified recipients whose day of separation from service pertaining to the special recipient qualification is before the effective date (hereinafter referred to as "former specially qualified recipients") is as prescribed in the following items:

With regard to the recipient qualification for the job applicant benefits for day workers pertaining to days before the date on which the amending provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①With regard to the daily amount of the job applicant benefits for day workers pertaining to days before September 1, 1994 and the daily amounts of wages pertaining to the classification of the amounts of stamp premiums prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance (referred to as "class-dividing daily amounts" in paragraphs (3) and (4)), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 48 of the new Employment Insurance Act concerning the job applicant benefits for day workers paid during September 1994, stamp premiums paid for days during July of that year pursuant to the provisions of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance prior to the amendment by Article 2 are deemed to be stamp premiums paid pursuant to the provisions of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance as amended by that Article; of the first class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (i) of the former Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as "old first class stamp premiums"), those for the number of days paid equivalent to the number of days paid (or, if that number of days paid exceeds the number of days paid of the old first class stamp premiums paid for days during July of that year, the number of days paid of those old first class stamp premiums) of the first class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (i) of the new Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as "new first class stamp premiums") paid for days during August of that year are deemed to be new first class stamp premiums for that number of days paid, and those for the remaining number of days paid are deemed to be the second class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (ii), (a) of the new Employment Insurance Act for that number of days paid; and the second class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (ii), (a) of the former Employment Insurance Act, the third class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (ii), (b) of the former Employment Insurance Act and the fourth class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (ii), (c) of the former Employment Insurance Act are deemed to be the third class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (ii), (b) of the new Employment Insurance Act.

③For the time being, in the case where the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare changes the daily amounts, etc. of the job applicant benefits for day workers pursuant to the provisions of Article 49, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act because the average regular earnings have exceeded 120 percent of the average regular earnings for September 1994 (where the daily amounts, etc. of the job applicant benefits for day workers have been changed pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the average regular earnings which were the basis of the most recent revision; the same applies in the following paragraph), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, change the daily amount of the job applicant benefits for day workers of 4,100 yen to 6,200 yen and the class-dividing daily amount of 8,200 yen to 11,300 yen, respectively.

④For the time being, in the case where the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare changes the daily amounts, etc. of the job applicant benefits for day workers pursuant to the provisions of Article 49, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act because the average regular earnings have fallen below 83 percent of the average regular earnings for September 1994, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, change the daily amount of the job applicant benefits for day workers of 6,200 yen to 4,100 yen and the class-dividing daily amount of 11,300 yen to 8,200 yen, respectively.

①With regard to the payment of the re-employment allowance under the provisions of Article 56-2, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act to qualified recipients (including persons deemed to be qualified recipients pursuant to the provisions of Article 37-6 of the former Employment Insurance Act) who took stable employment before the date on which the amending provisions listed in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②In the case where a former qualified recipient subject to the old daily amount (including a former elderly qualified recipient for whom the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies in the following Article) has, on or after the effective date, taken stable employment, by deeming the daily amount of the basic allowance that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions to be the daily amount of the basic allowance under the provisions of Articles 16 through 18 of the new Employment Insurance Act, and the prescribed duration of benefits that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions to be the prescribed duration of benefits prescribed in Article 22 of the new Employment Insurance Act, the provisions of Article 56-2 of the new Employment Insurance Act apply.

③The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to former qualified recipients other than former qualified recipients subject to the old daily amount. In this case, the phrase "taken stable employment, by deeming the daily amount of the basic allowance that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions to be the daily amount of the basic allowance under the provisions of Articles 16 through 18 of the new Employment Insurance Act, and" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "taken stable employment, by deeming".

①With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 57 of the Employment Insurance Act to a person who receives payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers in the daily amount under the provisions of Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "Article 48 or Article 54, item (ii)" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 57 of 1994)".

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 57 of the Employment Insurance Act to former qualified recipients subject to the old daily amount and former specially qualified recipients, the phrase "the provisions of Article 16" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 57 of 1994)", the phrase "qualified recipients of the basic allowance" with "former qualified recipients subject to the old daily amount under the provisions of that Article", and the phrase "Articles 16 through 18" with "that Article".

①With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 61 of the new Employment Insurance Act to insured persons who reached 60 years of age before the effective date, the phrase "the day on which the insured person reached 60 years of age" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "April 1, 1995", the phrase "the day on which the insured person reached 60 years of age or the day in the month subject to payment corresponding to that day (for a month which does not have a day corresponding to that day, the last day of that month)" with "the first day of the month subject to payment", and the phrase "from the month containing the day on which the insured person reached 60 years of age" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "from April 1995".

②The provisions of Article 61-2 of the new Employment Insurance Act apply to persons who have become insured persons by taking stable employment on or after the effective date; provided, however, that with regard to persons who, having become insured persons by taking stable employment before the effective date, continue to be insured persons on or after the effective date (limited to those who were qualified recipients prescribed in Article 61-2, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act on the day before the day on which they took that employment and who had reached 60 years of age on the day on which they took that employment), the provisions of that Article apply by deeming them to have taken stable employment on the effective date. In this case, the phrase "the daily amount of wages, which was the basis of the calculation of the daily amount of the basic allowance" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the amount equivalent to the daily amount of wages to be calculated when the provisions of Article 17 (excluding paragraph (3)) are applied by deeming the insured person to be a qualified recipient and April 1, 1995 to be the day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification (hereinafter referred to as the 'amount deemed to be the daily amount of wages')", the phrase "the month containing the employment day" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "April 1995", the phrase "the day after the employment day" with "the 2nd of that month", the phrase "the daily amount of wages referred to in paragraph (1) of the following Article" in paragraph (3) of that Article with "the amount deemed to be the daily amount of wages referred to in paragraph (1) of the following Article", and the phrase "paragraph (1) of the following Article'" with "paragraph (1) of the following Article as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 57 of 1994)'".

③The provisions of Article 61, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the new Employment Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the re-employment benefits for the elderly pertaining to the insured persons referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "the provisions of paragraph (1)" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 61-2, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 57 of 1994)", the phrase "the amount deemed to be the daily amount of wages" with "the amount deemed to be the daily amount of wages referred to in that paragraph (referred to as the 'amount deemed to be the daily amount of wages' in the following paragraph)", and the phrase "the provisions of paragraph (1)" in paragraph (4) with "the provisions of Article 61-2, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 57 of 1994)".

④The Minister of Labour must, in the case where the daily amount of the basic allowance was changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18 of the former Employment Insurance Act before the effective date, from the effective date, and in the case where the daily amount of the basic allowance is changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions, from August 1, 1995, change the payment amount limit prescribed in Article 61, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act in accordance with the rate of those changes. In this case, the phrase "when that amount has been changed pursuant to" in item (ii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "when that amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 57 of 1994) or".

⑤The provisions of Article 3, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to the payment amount limit referred to in the preceding paragraph as changed pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph.

The basic childcare leave benefits prescribed in Article 61-4, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act and the benefits for childcare leave takers returning to work prescribed in Article 61-5, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act are paid for payment unit periods for which the day on which the leave prescribed in Article 61-4, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act was commenced or the corresponding absence commencement day prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article is on or after the effective date.

The provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act apply to the amount to be borne by the national treasury for fiscal year 1995 and subsequent fiscal years.

With regard to the amount of the job applicant benefits for the aged for persons who are able to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for the aged and whose day of separation from service pertaining to the qualification to receive payment of those job applicant benefits for the aged is before the effective date (hereinafter referred to as "former aged qualified recipients"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.