This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items:

With regard to the payment of benefits conducted as a project set forth in Article 29, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act prior to its amendment by Article 5, for which the reason for payment arose before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the application of the provisions of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance as amended by Article 7 to the costs required for the payment of the benefits that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, the term "business" in Article 10, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "business (including the business of paying the benefits that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 51 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007) (hereinafter referred to as the "benefit payment business"))", and the phrase "and projects to promote social reintegration of workers into society" in Article 12, paragraph (2) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "and projects to promote social reintegration of workers into society (including the benefit payment business; the same applies hereinafter)".

With regard to the application of the provisions of the Act on Special Accounts as amended by Article 136 of the Supplementary Provisions to the costs required for the benefits that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 51 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "expenses for projects to promote social reintegration of workers into society" in Article 99, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "expenses for projects to promote social reintegration of workers into society (including the costs required for the business of paying the benefits that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 51 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007))".

①If, during the period up to the day before the day on which 50 days elapse from the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare changes the employment insurance rate, pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (5) of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance as amended by Article 7 (hereinafter referred to as the "new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act" in this Article through Article 53-4 of the Supplementary Provisions), within the range from 15.5/1,000 to 17.5/1,000 (from 17.5/1,000 to 19.5/1,000 for the businesses prescribed in the proviso to paragraph (4) of that Article (excluding the businesses set forth in item (iii) of that paragraph), and from 18.5/1,000 to 20.5/1,000 for the businesses set forth in that item), the Minister may apply that change to the labor insurance premiums for the period on or after April 1, 2007. In this case, if the employment insurance rate has been changed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (8) of that Article, the phrase "from 15.5/1,000 to 17.5/1,000" in the preceding sentence is deemed to be replaced with "from 15/1,000 to 17/1,000", the phrase "from 17.5/1,000 to 19.5/1,000" with "from 17/1,000 to 19/1,000", and the phrase "from 18.5/1,000 to 20.5/1,000" with "from 18/1,000 to 20/1,000".

②If the employment insurance rate has been changed as referred to in the preceding paragraph, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 15 of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act to an employer who is to pay labor insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of that Article in the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 (excluding an employer for whom grounds for paying labor insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) or (2) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act arose on or after the day on which the employment insurance rate was changed as referred to in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the "date of change" in this Article through Article 53-4 of the Supplementary Provisions)), the phrase "for each insurance year, the following" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the following", the phrase "the first day of that insurance year" with "the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007", the phrase "midway through an insurance year" with "midway through that insurance year", the phrase "within 50 days" with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of that insurance year to the day before the date of change prescribed in Article 53-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007) (hereinafter referred to as the "date of change" in this Article)", and the phrase "in that insurance year" with "in the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007", and the phrase "within 20 days" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 20 days the number of days from the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 to the day before the date of change".

③If the employment insurance rate has been changed as referred to in paragraph (1), with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 19 of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act to an employer who is to submit a return pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of that Article in the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 (excluding an employer for whom grounds for submitting a return pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of that Article arose on or after the date of change) and to an employer who is to pay labor insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article (excluding an employer for whom grounds for paying labor insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph arose on or after the date of change), the phrase "for each insurance year, the following" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the following", the phrase "the following insurance year" with "the insurance year following the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2006", the phrase "midway through an insurance year" with "midway through that insurance year", the phrase "within 50 days" with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of that insurance year to the day before the date of change prescribed in Article 53-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007) (hereinafter referred to as the "date of change" in this Article)", the phrase "employed in that insurance year" with "employed in the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2006", the phrase "those that were extinguished" with "those for which the relationship between the insured business and the insurance was extinguished midway through the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007", the phrase "in that insurance year" with "in the insurance year in which that relationship between the insured business and the insurance was established or extinguished", the phrase "general insurance premiums and that insurance year" with "general insurance premiums and the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2006", the phrase "and that insurance year" with "and the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2006", and the phrase ", in that insurance year" with ", in the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2006"; the phrase "within 50 days" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of that insurance year to the day before the date of change"; and the phrase "the following insurance year" in paragraph (3) of that Article with "the insurance year following the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2006", and the phrase "within 50 days" with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 to the day before the date of change".

①If the employment insurance rate has been changed as referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (3) of the Act on the Re-arrangement of Relevant Acts Necessitated by the Enforcement of the Unemployment Insurance Act, the Act for Partially Revising the Workers' Accident Compensation Insurance Act and the Act on the Collection, etc. of the Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance (Act No. 85 of 1969; hereinafter referred to as the "Arrangement Act" in this Article) to an employer who is to pay special insurance premiums in the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) or (2) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (3) of the Arrangement Act (excluding an employer for whom grounds for paying special insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of that Article arose on or after the date of change), the phrase "for each insurance year, the following" in Article 15, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to that paragraph is to be deemed to be replaced with "the following", the phrase "the first day of that insurance year (an insurance year" with "the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 (that insurance year", the phrase "within 50 days" with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of that insurance year to the day before the date of change prescribed in Article 53-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007) (hereinafter referred to as the "date of change" in this Article)", and the phrase "all workers to be employed in that insurance year (midway through an insurance year" with "all workers to be employed in the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 (midway through that insurance year", and the phrase "within 20 days" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 20 days the number of days from the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 to the day before the date of change".

②If the employment insurance rate has been changed as referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (3) of the Arrangement Act to an employer who is to submit a return in the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1) or (2) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (3) of the Arrangement Act (excluding an employer for whom grounds for submitting a return pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1) or (2) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (3) of the Arrangement Act arose on or after the date of change) and to an employer who is to pay special insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (3) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (3) of the Arrangement Act (excluding an employer for whom grounds for paying special insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (3) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (3) of the Arrangement Act arose on or after the date of change), the phrase "for each insurance year, the following" in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to that paragraph is to be deemed to be replaced with "the following", the phrase "the first day of the following insurance year (an insurance year" with "the first day of the insurance year following the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2006 (that insurance year", the phrase "within 50 days" with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of that insurance year to the day before the date of change prescribed in Article 53-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007) (hereinafter referred to as the "date of change" in this Article)", and the phrase "all workers employed in that insurance year (for those whose collection period began or elapsed midway through an insurance year" with "all workers employed in the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2006 (for those whose collection period began midway through that insurance year or whose collection period elapsed midway through the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007, in the insurance year in which that collection period began or elapsed"; the phrase "within 50 days" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 to the day before the date of change"; and the phrase "the first day of the following insurance year" in paragraph (3) of that Article with "the first day of the insurance year following the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2006", and the phrase "within 50 days" with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 to the day before the date of change".

If the employment insurance rate has been changed as referred to in Article 53-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Act on Asbestos Health Damage Relief (Act No. 4 of 2006; hereinafter referred to as the "Asbestos Health Damage Relief Act" in this Article) to an employer who, in the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007, is to submit a return pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1) or (2) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Asbestos Health Damage Relief Act and to pay paragraph (1) general contributions pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (3) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Asbestos Health Damage Relief Act (excluding an employer for whom grounds for submitting a return pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1) or (2) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Asbestos Health Damage Relief Act and for paying paragraph (1) general contributions pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (3) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Asbestos Health Damage Relief Act arose on or after the date of change), the phrase "for each insurance year, the following" in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to that paragraph is to be deemed to be replaced with "the following", the phrase "the first day of that insurance year (for those for which the relationship between the insured business and the insurance was extinguished midway through an insurance year," with "the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 (for those for which the relationship between the insured business and the insurance was extinguished midway through that insurance year, the first day of that insurance year and", the phrase "within 50 days" with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of that insurance year to the day before the date of change prescribed in Article 53-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007) (hereinafter referred to as the "date of change" in this Article)", the phrase "Article 15, paragraph (1), item (i)" with "Article 15, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii)", the phrase "the insurance year immediately preceding that insurance year" with "the insurance year immediately preceding the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007", the phrase "workers (" with "workers (with respect to the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007,", and the phrase "for those for which the relationship between the insured business and the insurance was established or extinguished" with "if the relationship between the insured business and the insurance was extinguished and the return is submitted within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of that insurance year to the day before the date of change, counting from the day on which that relationship was extinguished"; the phrase "within 50 days" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007 to the day before the date of change", and the phrase "Article 15, paragraph (1), item (i)" with "Article 15, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii)"; and the phrase "the first day of that insurance year" in paragraph (3) of that Article with "the first day of the insurance year beginning on April 1, 2007", and the phrase "within 50 days" with "within the number of days obtained by adding to 50 days the number of days from the first day of that insurance year to the day before the date of change".

With regard to the application of penal provisions to an act committed before the enforcement of this Act (with respect to the provisions listed in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, the respective provisions concerned; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), and to an act committed after the enforcement of this Act in the case where the provisions then in force are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Approximately five years after this Act comes into effect, the government is to review the state of regulation based on the provisions of the Employment Insurance Act and other Acts as amended by this Act, taking into consideration the status of enforcement of this Act and other circumstances, and, if it finds it necessary, is to take required measures based on the results of that review.

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.