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

The provisions of Article 23, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (referred to as the "Employment Insurance Act after the Article 1 amendment" in the following Article and Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions) apply to a person whose date of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification (meaning the qualification to receive payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act (including as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article); the same applies in Article 31 of the Supplementary Provisions) (hereinafter referred to as the "date of separation" in this Article and Article 31 of the Supplementary Provisions) falls on or after the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as "the effective date"), and with regard to the prescribed duration of benefits (meaning the prescribed duration of benefits prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act; the same applies in the following Article) for a person whose date of separation falls before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①The provisions of Article 24-2 and Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 1 amendment apply to a person for whom the day on which the person finished receiving payment of the basic allowance for the number of days equivalent to the prescribed duration of benefits falls on or after the effective date.

②With regard to the payment of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employment Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Employment Insurance Act before the Article 1 amendment" in this paragraph and Article 31 of the Supplementary Provisions) (referred to as "old individual extended benefits" in the following paragraph) for a person for whom the day on which the person finished receiving payment of the basic allowance for the number of days equivalent to the prescribed duration of benefits falls before the effective date, and the adjustment concerning the various kinds of extended benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) of Article 28 of the Employment Insurance Act before the Article 1 amendment under the provisions of that Article as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article 5, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), for a person who is actually receiving old individual extended benefits at the time the provisions of Article 1 come into effect and who falls under Article 24-2, paragraph (1) (limited to item (ii)) of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 1 amendment, payment of the basic allowance under the provisions of that Article (hereinafter referred to as "new individual extended benefits" in this paragraph) may be made after the day on which the person finished receiving payment of the old individual extended benefits. In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 1 amendment (excluding the provisions of Articles 10-4 and 34) concerning new individual extended benefits, new individual extended benefits are deemed to have been paid for the number of days equivalent to the number of days for which the old individual extended benefits were paid.

The provisions of Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 1 amendment apply to a person whose day of second separation from service prescribed in Article 57, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter simply referred to as "second separation from service" in this Article) falls on or after the effective date, and with regard to the employment promotion allowance for a person whose day of second separation from service falls before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 10-4, paragraph (2) of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (referred to as the "Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment" in the following Article) apply to a person who made a false notification, report or certification on or after the date on which the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "item (iv) effective date"), and with regard to a person who made a false notification, report or certification before the item (iv) effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 58, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act after the Article 2 amendment for a person who has found employment through a referral by a specified local government prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (8) of the Employment Security Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4 (hereinafter referred to as the "Employment Security Act after the Article 4 amendment" in this Article and Article 10 and Article 14, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) or by an employment placement business operator prescribed in Article 18-2 of the Employment Security Act after the Article 4 amendment apply in the case where the day on which that person found employment through that referral falls on or after the item (iv) effective date.

With regard to the educational training benefits for a person who falls under any of the items of Article 60-2, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (referred to as the "Employment Insurance Act before the Article 2 amendment" in the following Article) and who began the educational training prescribed in that paragraph before the item (iv) effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the educational training support benefits for a person who began the educational training prescribed in Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employment Insurance Act before the Article 2 amendment before the item (iv) effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The government is to review the state of regulation based on the provisions of the Employment Insurance Act and the Employment Security Act amended by this Act, approximately five years after this Act comes into effect, taking into consideration the enforcement and other conditions of those provisions, and if it finds it necessary, take the required measures based on the results.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to conduct engaged in before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions) comes 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.