# 雇用保険法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act — 第六十八条 (Article 68)

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- Law: 雇用保険法施行規則 (Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act), 昭和五十年労働省令第三号
- English title "Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act": claude-opus-5-5
- Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第六十八条 (Article 68)（失業の認定） — address `art-68`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-22
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### 第六十八条（失業の認定） — Recognition of Unemployment
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<sup>art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-68</sup>

  **第一項**  管轄公共職業安定所の長は、次条において準用する第十九条第一項の規定により離職票を提出した者が特例受給資格者であると認めたときは、その者が法第四十条第三項の失業していることについての認定を受けるべき日（以下この条において「失業の認定日」という。）及び特例一時金を支給すべき日（以下この条において「支給日」という。）を定め、その者に知らせるとともに、特例受給資格者証（個人番号カードを提示して次条において準用する第十九条第一項の規定による提出をした者であつて、雇用保険特例受給資格通知（当該者の氏名、被保険者番号、性別、生年月日、離職理由、基本手当日額、所定給付日数、給付に係る処理状況その他の職業安定局長が定める事項を記載した通知をいう。以下「特例受給資格通知」という。）の交付を希望するものにあつては、特例受給資格通知）に必要な事項を記載した上、交付しなければならない。
  <sup>art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-68/par-1</sup>
  When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office finds that a person who has submitted a separation slip pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis in the following Article is a specially qualified recipient, the Chief must determine the day on which that person is to receive the certification of unemployment under Article 40, paragraph (3) of the Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "day of recognition of unemployment") and the day on which the special lump sum payment is to be paid (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "payment day"), notify that person thereof, and enter the necessary matters in, and issue, the specially qualified recipient's certificate (in the case of a person who has made the submission under Article 19, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis in the following Article by presenting an Individual Number Card and who wishes to be issued an employment insurance special recipient qualification notice (meaning a notice stating the person's name, insured person number, sex, date of birth, reason for separation from service, daily basic allowance amount, prescribed duration of benefits, processing status of benefits and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau; hereinafter referred to as the "special recipient qualification notice"), the special recipient qualification notice).
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  **第二項**  管轄公共職業安定所の長は、必要があると認めるときは、失業の認定日及び支給日を変更することができる。
  <sup>art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-68/par-2</sup>
  If the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office finds it necessary, the Chief may change the day of recognition of unemployment and the payment day.
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  **第三項**  管轄公共職業安定所の長は、前項の規定により失業の認定日及び支給日を変更したときは、その旨を当該特例受給資格者に知らせなければならない。
  <sup>art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-68/par-3</sup>
  When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office has changed the day of recognition of unemployment and the payment day pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Chief must notify the specially qualified recipient concerned to that effect.
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## Cites
- art-68/par-1: 次条 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第六十九条 (Article 69), art-69 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-69
- art-68/par-1: 第十九条第一項 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19/par-1
- art-68/par-1: 法第四十条第三項 → 雇用保険法 第四十条第三項 (Article 40, paragraph (3)), art-40/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-40/par-3 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)
- art-68/par-1: この条 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第六十八条 (Article 68), art-68 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-68
- art-68/par-3: 前項 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第六十八条第二項 (Article 68, paragraph (2)), art-68/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-68/par-2

## Cited by

8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 雇用保険法施行規則 第十七条の二第一項（未支給失業等給付の請求手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-2/par-1
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第六十八条第一項（失業の認定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-68/par-1
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第六十八条第三項（失業の認定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-68/par-3
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第六十九条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-69/par-1
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第七十条第一項（特例受給資格者が公共職業訓練等を受ける場合の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-70/par-1
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第百四十四条の二第一項（船員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-144-2/par-1
- 雇用保険法施行規則 附則第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3569-17/par-2
- 雇用保険法施行規則 附則第二条第一項（改正法附則第二条第三項の労働省令で定める日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4019-31/art-2/par-1

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-06
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 雇用保険法施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-10-22 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/350M50002000003/20261022_508M60000100149), retrieved 2026-11-06
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance-20261106T171536-007, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance-20261106T171536-018, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance-20261106T171536-018, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 228 — 雇用保険法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06
