# 雇用保険法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)

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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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（改正法附則第四条第二項の厚生労働省令で定める基準） — address `suppl-4079-1/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-22
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### 第四条（改正法附則第四条第二項の厚生労働省令で定める基準） — Standards Specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 4, Paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4079-1/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4079-1/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  雇用保険法等の一部を改正する法律（平成六年法律第五十七号。以下「改正法」という。）附則第四条第二項の厚生労働省令で定める基準は、受給資格者が次のいずれにも該当することとする。
<sup>suppl-4079-1/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4079-1/art-4/par-1</sup>
The standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 57 of 1994; hereinafter referred to as the "Amending Act") are that a qualified recipient falls under all of the following items.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一**  受給資格に係る離職の日において五十五歳以上六十歳未満であること。
  <sup>suppl-4079-1/art-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4079-1/art-4/par-1/item-1</sup>
  being aged 55 or older and under 60 on the day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification;
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **二**  特に職業指導その他再就職の援助を行う必要があると認められること（当該受給資格に係る離職後最初に公共職業安定所に求職の申込みをした日以後、正当な理由がなく、公共職業安定所の紹介する職業に就くこと、公共職業安定所長の指示した公共職業訓練等を受けること又は厚生労働大臣の定める基準に従つて公共職業安定所が行う再就職を促進するために必要な職業指導を受けることを拒んだことのある場合を除く。）。
  <sup>suppl-4079-1/art-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4079-1/art-4/par-1/item-2</sup>
  being recognized as particularly needing vocational guidance and other assistance for re-employment (excluding a case where, on or after the day on which the person first applied for employment with a Public Employment Security Office after the separation from service pertaining to that recipient qualification, the person has refused, without legitimate grounds, to take up an occupation to which a Public Employment Security Office refers the person, to undergo public vocational training, etc. as directed by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office, or to receive vocational guidance necessary to promote re-employment that a Public Employment Security Office provides in accordance with the standards determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare).
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261106T171536-101, 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