If a person who is an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on the day preceding the effective date, who became an employee of the Corporation without interruption on the effective date, and who, on the day preceding the effective date, has received certification from the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications or a person delegated by that Minister under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Child Allowance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 154 (including where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2), Article 7, paragraph (4) or Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), meets, on the effective date, the requirements for payment of child allowance or of the benefit under Article 6, paragraph (1), Article 7, paragraph (1) or Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "special benefit, etc."), then, with regard to the payment of child allowance or special benefit, etc. to that person, certification by the mayor of the municipality (including the head of a special ward) under Article 7, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to have been made on the effective date. In this case, payment of the child allowance or special benefit, etc. deemed to have been so certified begins in April 2003, notwithstanding Article 8, paragraph (2) of that Act (including where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2), Article 7, paragraph (4) or Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act).