①With respect to a worker who had been in continuous service for more than six months before the date on which the Act Partially Amending the Labor Standards Act and the Act on Temporary Measures for Promotion of Shorter Working Hours (Act No. 79 of 1993) came into effect (hereinafter referred to as "the effective date") and whose prescribed working hours per week are less than 30 hours, the number of days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of the ratio between the number of days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 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 is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 24-3, paragraph (3) of the new Rules, the number of days specified for each category of the period of continuous service in the right-hand column of the following table, in accordance with the category of the number of prescribed working days in the left-hand column of that table in the case of a worker set forth in Article 39, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Act, and in accordance with the category of the number of prescribed working days for one year in the middle column of that table in the case of a worker set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph.

③With respect to a worker, among workers who had been in continuous service for more than six months before the effective date and whose prescribed working hours per week are less than 30 hours, for whom the day following the day on which the number of years of continuous service counted from the day of hiring reaches seven or eight years falls within the period from April 1, 2000 to March 31, 2001, the number of days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of the ratio between the number of days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 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 is, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article and paragraph (1) of this Article, during the period from April 1, 2000 to March 31, 2001, the number of days specified for each category of the period of continuous service in the right-hand column of the following table, in accordance with the category of the number of prescribed working days in the left-hand column of that table in the case of a worker set forth in Article 39, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Act, and in accordance with the category of the number of prescribed working days for one year in the middle column of that table in the case of a worker set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph.