Supplementary Provisions

This Ministerial Order comes into effect as of the day of enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 31 of 2003).

The provisions of Article 14-5 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Ordinance") apply to an insured person who commenced, on or after the Effective Date of this Ministerial Order (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), the leave prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article, or an insured person who is subject to the shortening of working hours prescribed in that paragraph that commenced on or after the Effective Date.

①With regard to the daily amount of the attendance allowance pertaining to days before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②With regard to the payment of the attendance allowance for specified occupations pertaining to days before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①A person who has been issued a job seeker's handbook for persons separated from specified depressed industries pursuant to the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures for the Employment Stabilization of Workers Related to Specified Depressed Industries, etc. (Act No. 39 of 1983) before abolition by the provisions of Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Measures Act, etc. to Promote Smooth Re-employment in Response to Changes in the Economy and Society (Act No. 35 of 2001), or pursuant to the provisions of Article 11 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Special Measures for the Employment Stabilization of Workers Related to Specified Depressed Industries, etc. (Order of the Ministry of Labour No. 20 of 1983) before abolition by Article 1 of the Ministerial Order Abolishing the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Special Measures for the Employment Stabilization of Workers Related to Specified Depressed Industries, etc. (Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare No. 129 of 2001), is deemed to fall under the persons with a physical disability and other persons who have difficulty in finding employment, specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 56-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act, only while the job seeker's handbook for persons separated from specified depressed industries that was issued remains effective.

②A person who has been issued a job seeker's handbook for coal mine workers separated from service pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1), Article 9, paragraph (1) or Article 9-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act on Temporary Measures for Employment Stabilization, etc. of Coal Mine Workers, etc. (Act No. 199 of 1959) before abolition by the provisions of Article 2 of the Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts Accompanying the Completion, etc. of the Structural Adjustment of the Coal Mining Industry (Act No. 16 of 2000) is deemed to fall under the persons with a physical disability and other persons who have difficulty in finding employment, specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 56-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act, only while the job seeker's handbook for coal mine workers separated from service that was issued remains effective.

③A person who has been issued an Okinawa unemployed persons' job seeker's handbook pursuant to the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures for Okinawa Promotion and Development (Act No. 131 of 1971) before it ceased to be effective pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act is deemed to fall under the persons with a physical disability and other persons who have difficulty in finding employment, specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 56-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act, only while the Okinawa unemployed persons' job seeker's handbook that was issued remains effective.

The provisions of Article 101-2-3 of the New Ordinance apply where the period pertaining to the notification under that Article during which a person has been unable to commence the educational training prescribed in Article 60-2, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act (Act No. 116 of 1974) for 30 or more consecutive days begins on or after the Effective Date.

With regard to the application of Article 20, paragraph (1) and Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Ordinance to a person who took up employment before the Effective Date, the phrase "daily basic allowance amount" in item (ii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "daily amount of the basic allowance prescribed in Article 56-2, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Act", and the phrase "3/4" in that Article with "the number obtained by multiplying by 5/6 the number obtained by dividing the daily basic allowance amount by the daily amount of the basic allowance prescribed in Article 56-2, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Act".

The employment insurance certificate of wages at the commencement of leave under Article 14-3, paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance, the written claim for unpaid benefits for unemployment, etc. under Article 17-2, paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance, the written declaration for recognition of unemployment under Article 22, paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance, the certificate of attendance at public vocational training, etc. under Article 27 of the New Ordinance, the notification of designation of the desired financial institution for payment under Article 45, paragraph (2) of the New Ordinance, the notification of change of the desired financial institution for payment under Article 45, paragraph (3) of the New Ordinance, the written application for injury and disease allowance under Article 63, paragraph (2) of the New Ordinance, the elderly qualified recipient's written declaration for recognition of unemployment under Article 65-5 of the New Ordinance, the specially qualified recipient's written declaration for recognition of unemployment under Article 69 of the New Ordinance, and the written application for educational training benefits under Article 101-2-8, paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance may, for the time being, continue to be in the corresponding forms of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 1.