With respect to the number of days specified by order in consideration of the ratio between the number of days specified by order as the number of prescribed working days per week for an ordinary worker referred to in Article 39, paragraph (3) of the Act and the number of prescribed working days per week or the average number of prescribed working days per week for the worker concerned, for a worker who has been in continuous service for more than six months before the effective date, whose base date is a day other than April 1, and whose prescribed working hours per week are less than 30 hours, the provisions then in force continue to govern until the day preceding the first base date after the date on which this Ministerial Ordinance comes into effect, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 24-3, paragraph (3) of the new Rules.