Article 7Notification of Ceasing to Be an Insured Person

①Pursuant to Article 7 of the Act, an employer must submit, within 10 days counting from the day following the day of the fact, an employment insurance notification of loss of insured status (meaning a notification form stating the name of the insured person, insured person number, Individual Number, sex, date of birth, prescribed weekly working hours, and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau; hereinafter referred to as the "notification of loss of insured status"), with a written contract pertaining to a labor contract, a roster of workers, a wage ledger, a certificate of registered matters, or any other document capable of proving the fact of having ceased to be an insured person pertaining to the covered undertaking and the date of that fact attached, to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business, concerning the fact that a worker it employs has ceased to be an insured person pertaining to a covered undertaking carried out by the employer. In this case, where the cause of having ceased to be an insured person pertaining to that covered undertaking is separation from service, the employer must attach to that notification of loss of insured status the documents specified in the following items according to the category of persons listed in those items:

②The notification of loss of insured status to be submitted to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business pursuant to the preceding paragraph may be submitted via a pension office.

③Where the insured person does not wish to be issued an employment insurance separation slip (Form No. 6; hereinafter referred to as the "separation slip") when the employer submits the notification of loss of insured status pursuant to paragraph (1), the employer may, notwithstanding the second sentence of that paragraph, omit attaching the separation certificate; provided, however, that this does not apply to an insured person who is 59 years of age or older on the day of separation from service.

④The Chief of the Public Employment Security Office may, where a person who has ceased to be an insured person by separation from service was unable to receive payment of wages for 30 or more consecutive days, for a reason prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Act, during the two years on or before the day of separation from service (one year in the case of a person separated from service for specific reasons prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (3) of the Act and a person falling under any of the items of Article 23, paragraph (2) of the Act (excluding a person who comes to hold the qualification to receive payment of the basic allowance pursuant to Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Act)), and finds it necessary, order that person to submit a certificate from a physician or other document capable of proving that reason.

⑤With regard to the notification of having ceased to be an insured person for a person prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (5) of the Act whose day of ceasing to be an insured person is earlier than the day two years before the day on which confirmation of having become an insured person under Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Act was made, an employer must, notwithstanding the preceding three paragraphs, submit the notification of loss of insured status, with any of the documents specified in the items of Article 33-2 attached, to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business.

⑥Notwithstanding paragraph (1), an employer may, as specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, omit attaching the documents specified in that paragraph.

⑦The notification referred to in paragraph (1) is, in the case of a specified corporation, to be made by submitting, in lieu of submitting the notification of loss of insured status and the documents specified in that paragraph, the matters to be stated in those documents using an electronic data processing system; provided, however, that this does not apply where it is found difficult to use an electronic data processing system due to a failure of a telecommunications line, a disaster or any other reason, and it is found possible to make the notification without using an electronic data processing system.

⑧The notification referred to in paragraph (5) is, in the case of a specified corporation, to be made by submitting, in lieu of submitting the notification of loss of insured status and the documents specified in the items of Article 33-2, the matters to be stated in those documents using an electronic data processing system; provided, however, that this does not apply where it is found difficult to use an electronic data processing system due to a failure of a telecommunications line, a disaster or any other reason, and it is found possible to make the notification without using an electronic data processing system.

⑨The provisions of paragraphs (3) and (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the case under paragraph (7).