①The basic allowance is to be paid pursuant to the provisions of this Subsection, where an insured person who becomes unemployed has been insured for a total period of 12 months or more during the two-year period preceding the day of separation from service, pursuant to the provisions of the following Article (for insured persons who were unable to receive payment of wages for 30 or more consecutive days during that period due to disease, injury or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, during the period of two years added to the number of days for which they were unable to receive payment of wages due to those reasons (where the aggregate period exceeds four years, four years); referred to as the "period for calculation" in Article 17, paragraph (1)).

②With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to persons separated from service for specific reasons and persons who fall under any of the items of Article 23, paragraph (2) (excluding persons who come to have the qualification to receive payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph), the phrase "two-year period" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "one-year period", the phrase "period of two years" with "period of one year", and the term "12 months" with "six months".

③The persons separated from service for specific reasons set forth in the preceding paragraph are persons who have been separated from service, other than those who fall under any of the items of Article 23, paragraph (2), and who are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as persons whose separation from service was due to the expiration of the term of a labor contract with a fixed term without the labor contract being renewed (limited to the case where no agreement on the renewal was reached even though the person wished for the renewal) or other unavoidable reasons.