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.