Supplementary Provisions, Article 1-4Provisional Measures concerning Specific Qualified Recipients

For the application of Article 36 to a person whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification falls during the period from May 1, 2020 to the date determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the phrase "as follows" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "in addition to the fact that the person or a relative living with the person (including a person who has not filed a notification of marriage but is in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship with that person) has a disease that is likely to make the illness severe if that person is infected with the pathogen of the novel coronavirus infection (limited to one whose pathogen is a coronavirus of the genus Betacoronavirus (limited to one that, in January 2020, was newly reported by the People's Republic of China to the World Health Organization as having the capacity to be transmitted to humans); the same applies hereinafter), or any other reason determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, as follows".