This Act comes into effect on April 1, 1995; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items:

With 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 date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as "the Effective Date") (hereinafter referred to as a "former qualified recipient") and whose first day of receiving payment of the basic allowance based on that recipient qualification is before August 1, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as a "former qualified recipient subject to the old daily amount"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①With regard to the automatic changing of the daily amount of the basic allowance in fiscal year 1995, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Employment Insurance Act"), when the average earnings for the fiscal year starting on April 1, 1994 have exceeded or fallen below the average regular earnings for June 1991 (if the table of daily amounts of the basic allowance has been revised pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act prior to its amendment by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Employment Insurance Act"), the average regular earnings that were the basis of that revision), the Minister of Labour must change the amount subject to automatic changing prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3) of the New Employment Insurance Act on and after August 1, 1995 in accordance with the rate of that increase or decrease. In this case, the change of the amount subject to automatic changing prescribed in that paragraph is, with regard to the application of the provisions of Chapter III of the New Employment Insurance Act, deemed to be a change of the amount subject to automatic changing prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3) of the New Employment Insurance Act under the provisions of that Article.

②If the amount subject to automatic changing referred to in the preceding paragraph as changed pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph includes a fraction of less than 5 yen, the fraction is to be rounded down, and if it includes a fraction of 5 yen or more and less than 10 yen, the fraction is to be rounded up to 10 yen.

①With 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.

②With 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.

③With 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".

With regard to public vocational training, etc. directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office before the Effective Date, the provisions of the proviso to Article 33, paragraph (1) of the New Employment Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 37-4, paragraph (5) of the New Employment Insurance Act) do not apply.

The daily amount of the injury and disease allowance for former qualified recipients subject to the old daily amount 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 2 of the Supplementary Provisions.

With regard to the amount of the job applicant benefits for the elderly for elderly qualified recipients whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification for the elderly is before the Effective Date (hereinafter referred to as "former elderly qualified recipients"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the payment of the job applicant benefits for former elderly qualified recipients who receive payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of Article 37-6 of the Former Employment Insurance Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern; provided, however, that the daily amount of the basic allowance for former elderly qualified recipients for whom the first day on which they receive payment of the basic allowance based on the recipient qualification acquired by being deemed to be qualified recipients pursuant to the provisions of that Article is on or after August 1, 1996 is calculated by applying the provisions of Articles 16 through 18 of the New Employment Insurance Act.

The application of the provisions of Article 40 of the New Employment Insurance Act to specially qualified recipients whose day of separation from service pertaining to the special recipient qualification is before the Effective Date (hereinafter referred to as "former specially qualified recipients") is as prescribed in the following items:

With regard to the recipient qualification for the job applicant benefits for day workers pertaining to days before the date on which the amending provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.