Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Transitional Measures Concerning the Prescribed Duration of Benefits of the Basic Allowance and Individual Extended Benefits
第四条（基本手当の所定給付日数及び個別延長給付に関する経過措置）
With regard to the prescribed duration of benefits and the number of days of individual extended benefits for former qualified recipients, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
With regard to a qualified recipient whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification (hereinafter referred to as "the basis day" in this paragraph) falls within the period from the effective date to March 31, 2000 (limited to a person who is 55 years of age or more and less than 60 years of age on the effective date), who falls under each of the following items, and whom the chief of the Public Employment Security Office has found to be a person who has difficulty in finding employment in light of the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the basic allowance may be paid beyond the prescribed duration of benefits, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 22-2 of the new Employment Insurance Act, for the days of unemployment within the period under the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Employment Insurance Act. In this case, the number of days for which the basic allowance is paid beyond the prescribed duration of benefits is to be limited to the number of days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare within a range not exceeding 60 days.
受給資格に係る離職の日（以下この項において「基準日」という。）が施行日から平成十二年三月三十一日までの間にある受給資格者（施行日において五十五歳以上六十歳未満であるものに限る。）であって、次の各号のいずれにも該当し、かつ、公共職業安定所長が厚生労働省令で定める基準に照らして就職が困難な者であると認めたものについては、新雇用保険法第二十二条の二の規定にかかわらず、雇用保険法第二十条第一項及び第二項の規定による期間内の失業している日について、所定給付日数を超えて、基本手当を支給することができる。この場合において、所定給付日数を超えて基本手当を支給する日数は、六十日を超えない範囲内で厚生労働省令で定める日数を限度とするものとする。
a person who falls under any of Article 22-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) through (d) of the new Employment Insurance Act, or any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as being equivalent thereto;
新雇用保険法第二十二条の二第一項第一号イからニまでのいずれかに該当する者その他これに準ずるものとして厚生労働省令で定める者
a person who falls under any of the following:
次のいずれかに該当する者
a qualified recipient who was an insured person other than a part-time insured person on the basis day and whose basic period for calculation is 10 years or more and less than 20 years;
a qualified recipient who was a part-time insured person on the basis day and whose basic period for calculation is one year or more and less than five years.
基準日において短時間労働被保険者であった受給資格者であって、その算定基礎期間が一年以上五年未満である者
With regard to a qualified recipient who falls under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the phrase "prescribed duration of benefits" in Article 23, paragraph (1), Article 24, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 25, paragraph (1) and Article 27, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with "number of days obtained by adding the number of days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 57 of 1994) to the prescribed duration of benefits".
前項の規定に該当する受給資格者については、雇用保険法第二十三条第一項、第二十四条第一項及び第二項、第二十五条第一項並びに第二十七条第一項中「所定給付日数」とあるのは、「所定給付日数に雇用保険法等の一部を改正する法律（平成六年法律第五十七号）附則第四条第二項に規定する厚生労働省令で定める日数を加えた日数」とする。