This Act comes into effect on the day of promulgation.

①With regard to the implementation, for employers and employers' organizations that had, before the effective date, carried out part of the measures constituting the grounds for payment, of the payment of the benefit under item (i) of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Act on Improvement of Personnel Management, etc. for Part-Time Workers before the amendment by the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as the "former Part-Time Workers Act"), which is carried out, pursuant to the provision of that paragraph, as an employment welfare services project under Article 64 of the Employment Insurance Act before the 2007 amendment, the provisions then in force continue to govern. In this case, the phrase "employment welfare services project under Article 64 of the Employment Insurance Act (Act No. 116 of 1974)" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "provisional employment welfare services project under Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007)", and the phrase "Article 64 of the Employment Insurance Act" in Article 16, paragraph (2) and Article 18 of the former Part-Time Workers Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc.".

②With regard to the implementation, for employers and employers' organizations that had, before the effective date, carried out part of the measures constituting the grounds for payment, of the payment of the benefit that is carried out, pursuant to the provision of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the former Part-Time Workers Act, as a project set forth in Article 29, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act before the amendment by Article 5, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the application of the provisions of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance after the amendment by Article 7, concerning the costs required for the payment of the benefit that is, pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, to be governed by the provisions then in force, the term "business" in Article 10, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "business (including a business that pays the benefit that is, pursuant to the provision of Article 112, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007), to be governed by the provisions then in force (hereinafter referred to as the "benefit payment business"))", and the phrase "and services for the promotion of social rehabilitation, etc." in Article 12, paragraph (2) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "and services for the promotion of social rehabilitation, etc. (including the benefit payment business; the same applies hereinafter)".

With regard to the application of the provisions of the Act on Special Accounts after the amendment by Article 136 of the Supplementary Provisions, concerning the costs required for the benefit that is, pursuant to the provision of Article 112, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, to be governed by the provisions then in force, the phrase "costs of services for the promotion of social rehabilitation, etc." in Article 99, paragraph (1), item (ii), sub-item (a) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "costs of services for the promotion of social rehabilitation, etc. (including the costs required for a business that pays the benefit that is, pursuant to the provision of Article 112, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007), to be governed by the provisions then in force)".

With regard to the application of penal provisions to an act committed before the enforcement of this Act (with respect to the provisions listed in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, the respective provisions concerned; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), and to an act committed after the enforcement of this Act in the case where the provisions then in force are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.