This Act comes into effect on January 1, 2017; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items:

①The provisions of Article 61-6, paragraph (4) of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Employment Insurance Act after the Article 1 amendment" in this paragraph and the following paragraph) apply to a person who began the leave prescribed in Article 61-6, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 1 amendment on or after the date on which the provisions listed in item (iii) of the preceding Article come into effect (excluding a person to whom the provisions of Article 61-6 of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment") apply pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3)), and with regard to a person who began the leave prescribed in Article 61-6, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (referred to as the "Employment Insurance Act before the Article 1 amendment" in the following paragraph) before that date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②The provisions of Article 12-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 1 amendment apply to nursing care leave benefits pertaining to the leave prescribed in Article 61-6, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 1 amendment that was begun on or after the date on which the provisions listed in item (iii) of the preceding Article come into effect, and with regard to nursing care leave benefits pertaining to the leave prescribed in Article 61-6, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act before the Article 1 amendment that was begun before that date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③The provisions of Article 61-6 of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment apply to a person who began the caregiver leave prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article on or after the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as "the effective date"), and with regard to a person who began the leave prescribed in Article 61-6, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "Employment Insurance Act before the Article 2 amendment") before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

A person who was employed on or after the day on which the person reached the age of 65 and who has continuously been employed since before the effective date (excluding a specially insured person in short-term employment prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act and an insured day worker prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1) of that Act) is deemed to have been employed in the covered undertaking of the employer concerned on the effective date, and the provisions of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment apply to that person.

The provisions of Article 56-3 of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment apply to a person who has come to fall under any of the items of paragraph (1) of that Article on or after the effective date, and with regard to the payment of the employment promotion allowance to a person who came to fall under any of the items of Article 56-3, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act before the Article 2 amendment before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the payment of relocation expenses under the provisions of Article 58 of the Employment Insurance Act to a person who became an elderly qualified recipient prescribed in Article 37-3, paragraph (2) of the Employment Insurance Act before the Article 2 amendment before the effective date (referred to as a "former elderly qualified recipient" in the following Article) (excluding a person who became, on or after the effective date, an elderly qualified recipient (meaning an elderly qualified recipient prescribed in Article 37-3, paragraph (2) of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment; the same applies in the following Article), a qualified day worker recipient (meaning a qualified day worker recipient prescribed in Article 56-3, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment; the same applies in the following Article) or a specially qualified recipient (meaning a specially qualified recipient prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2) of the Employment Insurance Act; the same applies in the following Article)), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 59 of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment apply to a person who, in connection with job-seeking activities, has performed an act prescribed in any of the items of paragraph (1) of that Article on or after the effective date (excluding that act in the case where wide-area job-seeking activity expenses under the provisions of Article 59 of the Employment Insurance Act before the Article 2 amendment have been paid with regard to that act) (excluding a person who became a former elderly qualified recipient within one year before the effective date and who has not become an elderly qualified recipient, a qualified day worker recipient or a specially qualified recipient on or after the effective date), and with regard to the payment of wide-area job-seeking activity expenses to a person who carried out job-seeking activities over a wide area upon referral by the Public Employment Security Office before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

In the case where a continuously insured elderly person (meaning a continuously insured elderly person prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act before the Article 2 amendment; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) ceased to be a continuously insured elderly person before the effective date and began, on or after the effective date, the educational training prescribed in Article 60-2, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment, with regard to the application of the provisions of item (ii) of that paragraph when the basis day prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph falls within the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in item (ii) of that paragraph from the day on which the person ceased to be a continuously insured elderly person, the phrase "elderly insured person" in that item is deemed to be replaced with "continuously insured elderly person prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 2 of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 17 of 2016)".

The provisions of Article 61-4 of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment apply to a person who began the leave prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article on or after the effective date, and with regard to a person who began the leave prescribed in Article 61-4, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act before the Article 2 amendment before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 66, paragraph (3) of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment apply to the amount to be borne by the national treasury for fiscal year 2020 and subsequent fiscal years.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to conduct engaged in before the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, 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.