The chief of the Public Employment Security Office or the Director of the District Transport Bureau (including Transport Supervision Departments, and the District Transport Offices and the offices of District Transport Bureaus, Transport Supervision Departments or District Transport Offices designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consultation with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) who receives an application for employment pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2) (including as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article) may, when finding it necessary, entrust the recognition of unemployment to another chief of a Public Employment Security Office or Director of a District Transport Bureau.