This Act comes into effect on August 1, 1984; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items:

①With regard to a person who became an insured person of the employment insurance before the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as "the effective date"), who was 65 years of age or more on the day on which the person became that insured person, and who has been continuously employed in a covered undertaking of the employment insurance by the same employer until the effective date, the provisions of Article 6, item (i) of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "new Employment Insurance Act") do not apply while the person continues to be employed in that covered undertaking on and after the effective date.

②With regard to the insured persons of the employment insurance to whom the provisions of Article 6, item (i) of the new Employment Insurance Act are not to apply pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (3), Article 37-2 and Article 37-3 of the new Employment Insurance Act apply by deeming a person other than a person who falls under the category of a specially insured person in short-term employment prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act or an insured day worker prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1) of that Act (hereinafter referred to as "specially insured persons in short-term employment, etc." in this paragraph) on the effective date (hereinafter referred to as a "generally insured person" in this paragraph) to have become a continuously insured elderly person prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act on the effective date, and a person who falls under the category of specially insured persons in short-term employment, etc. on the effective date and who has become a generally insured person after the effective date within the period prescribed in the preceding paragraph to have become such a continuously insured elderly person on the day on which the person became that generally insured person.

①With regard to the daily amount of the basic allowance, the daily amount of wages and the automatic changing of the daily amount of the basic allowance for a qualified recipient of the basic allowance whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification is before the effective date (hereinafter referred to as a "former qualified recipient"), the provisions of Articles 16 through 18 of the Employment Insurance Act prior to its amendment by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "former Employment Insurance Act") govern. In this case, the phrase "the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1)" in Article 16 of the former Employment Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1) (including the cases where those provisions are to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 54 of 1984))", and the phrase "the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article" in Article 17, paragraph (4) of the former Employment Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article (including the cases where those provisions are to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc.)".

②The provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act apply by deeming the table of daily amounts of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 16 of the new Employment Insurance Act to have been established based on the average regular earnings prescribed in that paragraph for August 1984.

③The provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 37, paragraph (9) of the new Employment Insurance Act) apply to the periods pertaining to the recognition of unemployment carried out on or after the effective date.

With regard to the period and the number of days under the provisions of Article 20 of the Employment Insurance Act and the prescribed duration of benefits for former qualified recipients, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the restriction on benefits under the provisions of Article 33, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 40, paragraph (3) of that Act) pertaining to separation from service before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The daily amount of the injury and disease allowance for a former qualified recipient is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (3) of the new Employment Insurance Act, the amount equivalent to the daily amount of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 40, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act concerning the amount of the special lump sum payment for a specially qualified recipient whose day of separation from service pertaining to the special recipient qualification is before the effective date (hereinafter referred to as a "former specially qualified recipient"), the phrase "qualified recipient prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1)" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "former qualified recipient prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 54 of 1984)", and the phrase "Articles 16 through 18" with "that paragraph".

①With regard to the daily amount of the job applicant benefits for day workers for days before September 1, 1984, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 48 of the new Employment Insurance Act concerning the job applicant benefits for day workers paid for days of unemployment prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act in September 1984, stamp premiums paid for days in July of that year pursuant to the provisions of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance prior to its amendment by Article 2 are deemed to be stamp premiums paid pursuant to the provisions of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance as amended by that Article; of the first class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (i) of the former Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as the "old first class stamp premiums"), those for the number of days of payment equivalent to the number of days of payment of the first class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (i) of the new Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as the "new first class stamp premiums") paid for days in August of that year (if that number of days of payment exceeds the number of days of payment of the old first class stamp premiums paid for days in July of that year, the number of days of payment of those old first class stamp premiums) are deemed to be new first class stamp premiums for that number of days of payment, and those for the remaining number of days of payment are deemed to be second class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (ii), (a) of the new Employment Insurance Act for that number of days of payment; the second class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (ii), (a) of the former Employment Insurance Act are deemed to be third class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (ii), (b) of the new Employment Insurance Act; and the third class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (ii), (b) of the former Employment Insurance Act are deemed to be fourth class stamp premiums prescribed in Article 48, item (ii), (c) of the new Employment Insurance Act.

If a former qualified recipient has taken up stable employment on or after the effective date, the provisions of Article 56-2 of the new Employment Insurance Act apply by deeming the period under the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act pertaining to that recipient qualification, which the provisions then in force are to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions, to be the period under the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act, and the daily amount of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions to be the daily amount of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 16 of the new Employment Insurance Act.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 57, paragraph (3) of the new Employment Insurance Act to former qualified recipients, former specially qualified recipients and persons who receive payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers of the daily amount under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "the provisions of Article 16" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 54 of 1984)", the phrase "qualified recipient for the basic allowance" with "former qualified recipient under the provisions of that paragraph", the phrase "Articles 16 through 18" with "that paragraph", and the phrase "Article 48 or Article 54, item (ii)" with "Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act".

With regard to the amount of stamp premiums to be paid for days before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

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