With respect to a worker for whom the day following the day on which the number of years of continuous service counted from the day on which the worker has been in continuous service for more than six months counted from the day of hiring (referred to as the "six-month mark" in the following paragraph and the following Article) reaches any number of years from four to eight falls within the period from April 1, 1999 to March 31, 2000, and whose prescribed working hours per week are less than 30 hours, 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 Labor Standards Act (hereinafter referred to as 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 Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by this Order (referred to as "the new Rules" in the following paragraph and Article 6, paragraph (1)), until that date, the number of days specified for each category of the period of continuous service counted from the day of hiring (referred to as the "period of continuous service" in the following paragraph and Article 6) in the right-hand column of the following table, in accordance with the category of the number of prescribed working days per week 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.