This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2020; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the days specified in those items.

The provisions of Article 14, paragraph (3), Article 37-3, paragraph (1), Article 39, paragraph (1) and Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "amended Employment Insurance Act") apply to the insured period (meaning the insured period prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) of a person whose date of separation from service pertaining to the calculation of the insured period (hereinafter referred to as the "date of separation" in this Article) falls on or after the date on which the provisions listed in item (ii) of the preceding Article come into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "item (ii) effective date" in this Article), and with regard to the insured period of a person whose date of separation falls before the item (ii) effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①The provisions of Article 61, paragraph (5) of the amended Employment Insurance Act apply to basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly for an insured person for whom the day on which the person reached 60 years of age (or, if the person falls under Article 61, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employment Insurance Act on that day, the day on which the person ceased to fall under that item; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) falls on or after the date on which the provisions listed in Article 1, item (vi) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "item (vi) effective date" in this Article), and with regard to basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly for an insured person for whom the day on which the person reached 60 years of age falls before the item (vi) effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②The provisions of Article 61, paragraph (5) of the amended Employment Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61-2, paragraph (3) of the Employment Insurance Act apply to re-employment benefits for the elderly for a person who has become an insured person by taking stable employment on or after the item (vi) effective date, and with regard to re-employment benefits for the elderly for a person who became an insured person by taking stable employment before the item (vi) effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Articles 61-7 and 61-8 of the amended Employment Insurance Act apply to a person who begins the leave prescribed in Article 61-7, paragraph (1) of the amended Employment Insurance Act 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 61-4, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "pre-amendment Employment Insurance Act") before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1) of the amended Employment Insurance Act apply to the amount to be borne by the national treasury for fiscal year 2020 and subsequent fiscal years. In this case, childcare leave benefits paid on or after the effective date to a person who began the leave prescribed in Article 61-4, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Employment Insurance Act before the effective date, with regard to whom the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, are deemed to be childcare leave benefits under the provisions of Article 61-7, paragraph (1) of the amended Employment Insurance Act, and the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the amended Employment Insurance Act apply to them.

②The government is to review, with regard to the provisions of Article 37-5 of the amended Employment Insurance Act, how the amended Employment Insurance Act should be applied to workers employed in the covered undertakings of two or more employers and other matters, approximately five years after the provisions listed in Article 1, item (v) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, while taking into consideration the circumstances of persons who have become elderly insured persons pursuant to those provisions and the conditions, etc. of payment of benefits based on the amended Employment Insurance Act to those persons, and if it finds it necessary, take the required measures based on the results.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and the following Article) comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

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