①An insured day worker must, with regard to falling under any of Article 43, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the Act, within five days counting from the day on which the worker came to fall under it, submit to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office a notification of acquisition of insured status as an insured day worker (Form No. 25), accompanied by a copy of the certificate of residence (in the case of a mid- to long-term resident prescribed in Article 19-3 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Cabinet Order No. 319 of 1951) (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as a "mid- to long-term resident"), a copy of the certificate of residence (limited to one stating the status of residence (meaning the status of residence prescribed in Article 2-2, paragraph (1) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph); the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (1) of the following Article)) or a certificate of the matters stated in the certificate of residence (limited to one stating the matters listed in Article 7, items (i) through (iii) and (vii) of the Residential Basic Book Act (Act No. 81 of 1967) (in the case of a mid- to long-term resident, the matters listed in items (i) through (iii) and (vii) of that Article and the status of residence); the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (1) of the following Article) (in the case of a person listed in the items of Article 19-3 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, a copy of a passport or other document certifying identity; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (1) of the following Article). In this case, a person specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau under Article 1, paragraph (5), item (iv) must attach the certificate specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau.

②A day worker who presents a driver's license, the document prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (2) of the National Health Insurance Act (Act No. 192 of 1958) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22 of that Act), an Individual Number Card, or a residence card prescribed in Article 19-3 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act or a special permanent resident certificate prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan (Act No. 71 of 1991) when submitting the notification of acquisition of insured status as an insured day worker pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, omit attaching the copy of the certificate of residence or the certificate of the matters stated in the certificate of residence.

③The Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office who has received the notification under the provisions of paragraph (1) may order the insured day worker who made that notification to submit documents that can prove that the worker falls under any of the items of Article 42 of the Act and any of Article 43, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the Act, and other necessary documents.

①A day worker who intends to obtain the authorization under Article 43, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Act must appear at the competent Public Employment Security Office and submit to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office an application for voluntary enrollment as an insured day worker (Form No. 26), accompanied by a copy of the certificate of residence or a certificate of the matters stated in the certificate of residence.

②The provisions of the second sentence of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the submission of the application for voluntary enrollment as an insured day worker referred to in the preceding paragraph.

③The Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office who has received the application under the provisions of paragraph (1) may order the day worker who made that application to submit documents that can prove that the worker falls under any of the items of Article 42 of the Act, and other necessary documents.

①When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office has received the submission of a notification of acquisition of insured status as an insured day worker pursuant to the provisions of Article 71 (limited to where it is found that the person who submitted that notification falls under any of the items of Article 42 of the Act and any of Article 43, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the Act), or has given the authorization under Article 43, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Act on the basis of the application for voluntary enrollment as an insured day worker referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the Chief must issue an insurance record book to the person who submitted that notification or the person pertaining to that authorization.

②When an insured day worker has lost or damaged the insurance record book in the worker's possession, or has no blank space remaining in it, the worker must notify the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office (excluding the Chief of a Public Employment Security Office that does not handle the relevant affairs pursuant to Article 793 of the Ordinance on the Organization of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter in this Section) to that effect and receive issuance of a new insurance record book. In this case, the insured day worker must present a driver's license or other document that enables confirmation that the person intending to apply for reissuance of the insurance record book is the person in question.

③The provisions of Article 17, paragraphs (5) through (7) and Article 50, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the issuance of an insurance record book under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "basic allowance" in Article 50, paragraph (4) is deemed to be replaced with "job applicant benefits for day workers".

④When a day worker whom an employer employs or employed requests, in order to be issued an insurance record book pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the issuance of the certificate under Article 71, paragraph (1), second sentence (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article), the employer must issue it to that person.

①An insured day worker who intends to obtain the authorization under Article 43, paragraph (2) of the Act must submit a written application for authorization to continue insured status as an insured day worker (Form No. 28), accompanied by an insurance record book, to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of the place of business of the covered undertaking in which the person was employed for 18 days or more in each of the two preceding months, or was employed continuously for 31 days or more, or to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office, via the employer of that place of business; provided, however, that where it is difficult, for an unavoidable reason, to submit that written application via that employer, it may be submitted without going via that employer.

②The Chief of the Public Employment Security Office who has received the submission of a written application for authorization to continue insured status as an insured day worker must enter in the insurance record book that the authorization under Article 43, paragraph (2) of the Act has been given or has not been given, and return it to the person who made the submission.

①The certification of unemployment under Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Act that a person who falls under Article 45 of the Act receives (hereinafter in this Section referred to as "recognition of unemployment") is to be conducted at the Public Employment Security Office daily for that day. In this case, the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office is to confirm the content of the job-seeking activities of the person who intends to receive that recognition.

②Where the day on which a person intends to receive recognition of unemployment is a day listed in the following items, the person may, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, receive recognition of unemployment by notifying, within one month after that day (where those days are consecutive, the last of them), that the person was unable to take up employment on that day.

③Where, on the day on which a person intends to receive recognition of unemployment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the person is unable to appear at the Public Employment Security Office because of a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, the person may, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, receive recognition of unemployment on a day within seven days counting from the day following the day on which that reason ceased.

④A person who intends to receive recognition of unemployment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must submit a certificate from a public agency, or a certificate from a person whom the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds appropriate, stating the matters listed in the following items:

⑤A person who intends to receive recognition of unemployment pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) must appear at the Public Employment Security Office, submit the insurance record book, and, where the day of unemployment pertaining to that recognition is the first day in the week containing that day on which the person is to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers, notify the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office that there was a day before that day in that week on which the person did not take up employment. In this case, a person specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau under Article 1, paragraph (5), item (iv) must attach the certificate specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau.

⑥The Chief of the Public Employment Security Office must determine the times at which recognition of unemployment and payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers are conducted at that Public Employment Security Office, and must inform persons who fall under Article 45 of the Act and who intend to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers of those times.

⑦When an insured day worker whom an employer employs or employed requests, in order to receive recognition of unemployment pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3), the issuance of the certificate under paragraph (5), second sentence (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 79, paragraph (6)), the employer must issue it to that person.