The parental leave benefits are paid when an insured person has, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, taken absence from work in order to take care of their child, for a period of not more than four weeks that the insured person specifies within the period until the day following the day on which eight weeks have elapsed counting from the day of the child's birth (if the child is born before the expected date of confinement, the period from the day of the birth until the day following the day on which eight weeks have elapsed counting from the expected date of confinement, and if the child is born after the expected date of confinement, the period from the expected date of confinement until the day following the day on which eight weeks have elapsed counting from the day of the birth; the same applies in Article 61-10) (limited to absence for which the insured person has notified the chief of the Public Employment Security Office of the wish to receive payment of the parental leave benefits; referred to as "parental leave" in this Article and Article 61-12, paragraph (1) and paragraph (6), item (i)), when the period deemed to be the insured period is a total of 12 months or more within the two-year period preceding the day on which the parental leave (if the insured person has taken parental leave for the second time with respect to the child, the first parental leave; the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (3)) was commenced (for an insured person who, during the two-year period preceding the day on which the parental leave was commenced, was continuously unable to receive payment of wages for 30 days or more due to disease, injury or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the period obtained by adding the number of days for which payment of wages could not be received due to the reason to two years (when that period exceeds four years, four years)).
出生時育児休業給付金は、被保険者が、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その子の出生の日から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日まで（出産予定日前に当該子が出生した場合にあつては当該出生の日から当該出産予定日から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日までとし、出産予定日後に当該子が出生した場合にあつては当該出産予定日から当該出生の日から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日までとする。第六十一条の十において同じ。）の期間内に四週間以内の期間を定めて当該子を養育するための休業（当該被保険者が出生時育児休業給付金の支給を受けることを希望する旨を公共職業安定所長に申し出たものに限る。以下この条並びに第六十一条の十二第一項及び第六項第一号において「出生時育児休業」という。）をした場合において、当該出生時育児休業（当該子について二回目の出生時育児休業をした場合にあつては、初回の出生時育児休業とする。以下この項及び第三項において同じ。）を開始した日前二年間（当該出生時育児休業を開始した日前二年間に疾病、負傷その他厚生労働省令で定める理由により引き続き三十日以上賃金の支払を受けることができなかつた被保険者については、当該理由により賃金の支払を受けることができなかつた日数を二年に加算した期間（その期間が四年を超えるときは、四年間））に、みなし被保険者期間が通算して十二箇月以上であつたときに、支給する。
If an insured person has received payment of the parental leave benefits with regard to parental leave pursuant to the provisions of this Section, and the insured person has taken parental leave that falls under either of the following items, the parental leave benefits are not paid, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph:
the third and any subsequent parental leave, in the case where the insured person has taken parental leave three or more times with respect to the same child; or
parental leave taken after the day on which the number of days obtained by totaling, for each parental leave taken by the insured person with respect to the same child, the number of days from the day on which the parental leave was commenced to the day on which the parental leave ended has reached 28 days.
The "period deemed to be the insured period" referred to in paragraph (1) is the period equivalent to the insured period to be calculated when the provisions of Article 14 (excluding paragraph (2), item (iii)) have been applied, deeming the day on which parental leave was commenced to be the day on which the person ceased to be an insured person.
The amount of the parental leave benefits is to be an amount equivalent to 67 percent of the amount obtained by multiplying the amount equivalent to the daily amount of wages to be calculated when the provisions of Article 17 have been applied, deeming the insured person who is able to receive payment of the parental leave benefits to be a qualified recipient and the day before the day on which the insured person commenced the parental leave pertaining to payment of the parental leave benefits (if the insured person has taken parental leave for the second time with respect to the same child, the first parental leave) to be the day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification (referred to as the "daily amount of wages at the commencement of absence" in the following paragraph), by the number of days obtained by totaling as prescribed in paragraph (2), item (ii) (when that number of days exceeds 28 days, 28 days; referred to as the "duration of benefits" in the following paragraph) (referred to as the "amount of payment" in the following paragraph). In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of the same Article, the phrase "the proviso of paragraph (1)" in paragraph (1) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "the proviso of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2), item (iii)", and the phrase "the amount listed in item (ii)" in paragraph (4) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "the amount specified in item (ii), (c)".
出生時育児休業給付金の額は、出生時育児休業給付金の支給を受けることができる被保険者を受給資格者と、当該被保険者が当該出生時育児休業給付金の支給に係る出生時育児休業（同一の子について二回目の出生時育児休業をした場合にあつては、初回の出生時育児休業とする。）を開始した日の前日を受給資格に係る離職の日とみなして第十七条の規定を適用した場合に算定されることとなる賃金日額に相当する額（次項において「休業開始時賃金日額」という。）に第二項第二号に規定する合算して得た日数（その日数が二十八日を超えるときは、二十八日。次項において「支給日数」という。）を乗じて得た額の百分の六十七に相当する額（次項において「支給額」という。）とする。この場合における同条の規定の適用については、同条第一項中「第一項ただし書」とあるのは「第一項ただし書及び第二項第三号」と、同条第四項中「第二号に掲げる額」とあるのは「第二号ハに定める額」とする。
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, when wages have been paid to an insured person who has taken parental leave, by the employer who employs the insured person, for the period during which the insured person took the parental leave (when the number of days obtained by totaling as prescribed in paragraph (2), item (ii) exceeds 28 days, limited to the period until the day on which that number of days reaches 28 days), if the amount obtained by adding the amount of payment to the amount of those wages is equal to or more than the amount equivalent to 80 percent of the amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of wages at the commencement of absence by the duration of benefits, the amount obtained by deducting the amount of those wages from the amount equivalent to 80 percent of the amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of wages at the commencement of absence by the duration of benefits is to be the amount of the parental leave benefits. In this case, when the amount of those wages is equal to or more than the amount equivalent to 80 percent of the amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of wages at the commencement of absence by the duration of benefits, the parental leave benefits are not paid, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1).
前項の規定にかかわらず、出生時育児休業をした被保険者に当該被保険者を雇用している事業主から当該出生時育児休業をした期間（第二項第二号に規定する合算して得た日数が二十八日を超えるときは、当該日数が二十八日に達する日までの期間に限る。）に賃金が支払われた場合において、当該賃金の額に支給額を加えて得た額が休業開始時賃金日額に支給日数を乗じて得た額の百分の八十に相当する額以上であるときは、休業開始時賃金日額に支給日数を乗じて得た額の百分の八十に相当する額から当該賃金の額を減じて得た額を、出生時育児休業給付金の額とする。この場合において、当該賃金の額が休業開始時賃金日額に支給日数を乗じて得た額の百分の八十に相当する額以上であるときは、第一項の規定にかかわらず、出生時育児休業給付金は、支給しない。
With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraphs (1), (3) and (4) in the case where an insured person seeking to receive payment of the parental leave benefits has already received payment of the childcare leave benefits with respect to the same child, the phrase "limited to absence" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "excluding absence pertaining to payment of the childcare leave benefits, and limited to absence", the phrase "the parental leave (if the insured person has taken parental leave for the second time with respect to the child, the first parental leave; the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (3))" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the first childcare leave taken by the insured person with respect to the child", and the phrase "(for an insured person who, during the two-year period preceding the day on which the parental leave" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "(for an insured person who, during the two-year period preceding the day on which the childcare leave"; the term "parental leave" in paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "the first childcare leave taken with respect to the same child"; and the phrase "the parental leave pertaining to payment of the parental leave benefits (if the insured person has taken parental leave for the second time with respect to the same child, the first parental leave)" in paragraph (4) is deemed to be replaced with "the first childcare leave taken with respect to the same child".
出生時育児休業給付金の支給を受けようとする被保険者が、既に同一の子について育児休業給付金の支給を受けていた場合における第一項、第三項及び第四項の規定の適用については、第一項中「限る」とあるのは「限り、育児休業給付金の支給に係るものを除く」と、「当該出生時育児休業（当該子について二回目の出生時育児休業をした場合にあつては、初回の出生時育児休業とする。以下この項及び第三項において同じ。）」とあるのは「当該子について当該被保険者がした初回の育児休業」と、「（当該出生時育児休業」とあるのは「（当該育児休業」と、第三項中「出生時育児休業」とあるのは「同一の子についてした初回の育児休業」と、第四項中「当該出生時育児休業給付金の支給に係る出生時育児休業（同一の子について二回目の出生時育児休業をした場合にあつては、初回の出生時育児休業とする。）」とあるのは「同一の子についてした初回の育児休業」とする。
With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraphs (2), (5) and (6) of the preceding Article in the case where an insured person seeking to receive payment of the childcare leave benefits has already received payment of the parental leave benefits with respect to the same child, the phrase "childcare leave (excluding" in paragraph (2) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "childcare leave (excluding parental leave prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article and"; the term "childcare leave" following "means" in paragraph (5) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "childcare leave (excluding parental leave prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article)"; and the phrase "the childcare leave benefits" following "counting from" in paragraph (6) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "the childcare leave benefits (including the parental leave benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article, payment of which the insured person has received with respect to the same child; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph)".