This Act comes into effect on the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year and six months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions listed in the following items come into effect as of the date specified in the respective items.

①Even before the date on which the provisions set forth in item (ii) of the preceding Article come into effect, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, in accordance with the provisions of Article 27-3, paragraph (2) of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives as amended by Article 1 (limited to the amending provisions set forth in that item) (referred to as the "item (ii) new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures" in the following paragraph), establish guidelines (meaning the guidelines prescribed in that paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph) and make them public.

②The guidelines established and made public pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are deemed, on the date on which the provisions set forth in item (ii) of the preceding Article come into effect, to be the guidelines established and made public pursuant to the provisions of Article 27-3, paragraph (2) of the item (ii) new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures.

①The formulation of guidelines under the provisions set forth in each of the following items, and the procedures and other acts necessary in connection therewith, may be carried out even before this Act comes into effect, in accordance with the provisions specified in the respective items.

②The guidelines formulated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are deemed, on the date on which this Act comes into effect, to be the guidelines formulated pursuant to the provisions of Article 33, paragraph (4) of the amended Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures and the guidelines formulated pursuant to the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (3) of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act as amended, respectively.

In addition to 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.

The government is to review measures for ensuring that behavior of customers, counterparties to transactions, users of facilities, or other persons having a connection with that business, engaged in during business pertaining to a business entrustment (meaning a business entrustment prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Ensuring Proper Transactions Involving Specified Entrusted Business Operators (Act No. 25 of 2023)) received by a specified entrusted business operator (meaning a specified entrusted business operator prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of that Act; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), which exceeds the scope permissible under generally accepted social norms in light of the nature of the business in which a specified person engaged in entrusted business (meaning a specified person engaged in entrusted business prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) pertaining to that specified entrusted business operator is engaged and other circumstances, does not harm the work environment of that specified person engaged in entrusted business, and, when it finds it necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results of that review.