①The committee members are to recruit employees by presenting the working conditions of JHIA's employees and the standards for hiring JHIA's employees to the employees of the Social Insurance Agency through the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency.

②When the working conditions of JHIA's employees and the standards for hiring JHIA's employees have been presented to the employees of the Social Insurance Agency pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency is to confirm the intentions of the employees of the Social Insurance Agency regarding becoming JHIA's employees, select, from among those who have expressed an intention to become JHIA's employees, the persons who are to become JHIA's employees in accordance with the standards for hiring JHIA's employees, prepare a roster of them, and submit it to the committee members.

③Among the employees of the Social Insurance Agency listed in the roster referred to in the preceding paragraph, a person who has received notice from the committee members to the effect that the person is to be hired and who is an employee of the Social Insurance Agency at the time of the enforcement of the provisions of Article 4 is hired as an employee of JHIA at the time of the establishment of JHIA.

④The matters that are to constitute the content of the working conditions to be presented pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the method of presentation pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the method of confirming the intentions of employees pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), and other matters necessary for the implementation of the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑤With regard to the hiring of JHIA's employees, acts done by the committee members and acts done toward the committee members are deemed to be acts done by JHIA and acts done toward JHIA, respectively.