①Pursuant to Article 7 of the Act, an employer must submit, by the 10th day of the month following the month in which the day of the fact falls, an employment insurance notification of acquisition of insured status (meaning a notification form stating the name of the insured person, Individual Number (meaning the Individual Number prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013); the same applies hereinafter), sex, date of birth, prescribed weekly working hours, insured person number (meaning the insured person number stated in the most recently issued employment insurance insured person's certificate under Article 10, paragraph (1) (except in that paragraph, hereinafter referred to as the "insured person's certificate"); the same applies hereinafter) (limited to a person who has been an insured person in the past), and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau; hereinafter referred to as the "notification of acquisition of insured status") 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 become an insured person pertaining to a covered undertaking carried out by the employer.

②A notification of acquisition 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 (excluding a notification of acquisition of insured status to be submitted pursuant to the following paragraph) may be submitted via a pension office.

③A notification of acquisition 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 paragraph (1) (limited to one in a form specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau as equivalent to the health insurance notification of acquisition of insured status prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act (Order of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 36 of 1926) (limited to one in Form No. 3-2 of that Ordinance) and to the employees' pension insurance notification of acquisition of insured status and notification of being an employee aged 70 or over prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Order of the Ministry of Health and Welfare No. 37 of 1954) (limited to one in Form No. 7-2 of that Ordinance)) may be submitted via the Director of the Labor Standards Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business or via a pension office.

④An employer must, in any of the following cases, attach to the notification of acquisition of insured status submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) documents capable of proving the fact of having become an insured person pertaining to the covered undertaking and the date of that fact, such as a written contract pertaining to a labor contract, a roster of workers or a wage ledger:

⑤Where an employer submits a notification of acquisition of insured status for a relative living with the employer (including a person who has not submitted a notification of marriage but is in circumstances equivalent to a marital relationship with the employer in fact) or any other person specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau as requiring particular confirmation, the employer must attach to the notification of acquisition of insured status submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) documents capable of proving the fact of having become an insured person pertaining to the covered undertaking and the date of that fact, such as a written contract pertaining to a labor contract, a roster of workers, a wage ledger or a certificate of registered matters, and the documents specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau.

⑥Notwithstanding the preceding two paragraphs, an employer may, as specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, omit attaching the documents specified in those paragraphs.

⑦A person who has been issued an insured person's certificate must, upon becoming an insured person, promptly present the insured person's certificate to the employer that employs the person.

⑧With regard to the notification of having become an insured person for a person prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (5) of the Act whose day of becoming 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 paragraph (1), submit the notification of acquisition 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.

⑨The notification referred to in paragraph (1) is, in the case of a specified corporation (meaning a corporation for which, at the start of a business year (meaning the business year prescribed in Articles 13 and 14 of the Corporation Tax Act (Act No. 34 of 1965)), the amount of stated capital, the amount of capital contribution, or the total amount of the initial contribution referred to in Article 41, paragraph (1) of the Act on Limitation on Shareholding by Banks and Other Financial Institutions (Act No. 131 of 2001) and the contribution at the time of sale referred to in paragraph (3) of that Article, paid to the Banks' Shareholdings Purchase Corporation by its members pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (3) of that Article, exceeds 100 million yen, a mutual company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Insurance Business Act (Act No. 105 of 1995), an investment corporation prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (12) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations (Act No. 198 of 1951), or a special purpose company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on the Securitization of Assets (Act No. 105 of 1998); the same applies hereinafter), to be made by submitting the matters to be stated in the notification of acquisition of insured status, in lieu of submitting the notification, using an electronic data processing system (meaning an electronic data processing system connecting, by a telecommunications line, a computer (including input and output devices; the same applies hereinafter) used by the Public Employment Security Office with a computer used by the specified corporation; the same applies hereinafter, except in Article 9 and Article 145); 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.

⑩When a specified corporation makes the submission referred to in the preceding paragraph in a case falling under any of the items of paragraph (4), or the submission referred to in the preceding paragraph for a person prescribed in paragraph (5), it must submit, together with the matters prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the matters to be stated in the documents specified in paragraph (4) or paragraph (5), respectively, using an electronic data processing system.

⑪The provisions of paragraph (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases under the preceding two paragraphs.

⑫The notification referred to in paragraph (8) is, in the case of a specified corporation, to be made by submitting, in lieu of submitting the notification of acquisition 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.

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).