Article 1.　The object of this Law is to grant an unemployment allowance or an unemployment insurance benefit to the insured person of Unemployment Insurance Law when he is out of a job.

Article 2.　In case the insured person of Unemployment Insurance Law falls under the following conditions, the government shall pay an unemployment allowance until April 30, 1948 and an unemployment insurance benefit after that date to the insured who comes under the following items:

Article 3.　The term "unemployment" in this Law, signifies the. condition in which a worker is out of a job and cannot be employed in spite of his will and ability to work.

Article 4.　A person who meets the provisions of Art.2 (hereinafter called a qualified recipient) shall have to take the following procedures to receive the unemployment allowance:

Article 5.　The unempolyment allowance shall be calculated on the basis of the quotient of the total amount, of wages divided by the number of all days during the two previous months of covered employment for which wages were paid, last month and the month-prior to that month before the separation in which the claimant was paid for 11 or more days of employment (in the case of being separated on the last day of the month, that month shall be used together with the next prior month of a minimum of 11 days of covered employment in the calculation). However, in case the wage paid in the last completed month is higher than that of the previous month on account of the wage raised according to laws, ordinance, orders, etc., or labor contracts or rules of employment, unemployment allowance shall be calculated on the basis of the quotient of the total amount of the wage paid in the last completed month divided by the number of all days during that period.

Article 6.　The benefit year in which a qualified recipient is eligible for receiving unemployment allowance shall be one year as from the following day of the date of separation.

Article 7.　The unemployment allowance shall not be paid unless a qualified recipient has been unemployed for a period of 30 days in total after his first application for a job to the Public Employment Security Office after he became unemployed. In case, however, the person who had become eligible to receive the unemployment allowance is again unemployed in the course of the benefit year stipulated in the preceding Article, he shall not have to serve an additional waiting period.

Article 8.　The unemployment allowance shall not be paid for more than one hundred and twenty days in total in the benefit year mentioned in Art.6.

Article 9.　In case the qualified recipient has fallen under the provisions of Art.15, Pargraph 1 of the Unemployment Insurance Law, the unemployment allowance shall not be paid to him thereafter.

Article 10.　In case a qualified recipient refuses to accept the job to which he is referred by the Public Employment Security Office or does not obey the direction of the same concerning vocational training, the unemployment allowance shall not be paid to him. However, in case a person comes under any of the following items, this shall not be applicable:

Article 11.　In case the person stipulated in the provisions of Art.2, Paragraph 1 is dischanged due to his grave misconduct or other reasons which fall on his responsiblity or in case he resigns on his own request without sufficient reason to justify that, the unemployment allowance shall not be paid to him.

Article 12.　In case a qualified recipient receives or attempts to receive an unemployment allowance by means of a false statement or other unfair conduct, the unemployment allowance shall not be paid to him.

Article 13.　Unemployment allowance shall be paid once a week for the seven preceding day's amount (excluding the amount for the days which a qualified recipient did not have the recognition of unemployment) at the Public Employment Security Office. However, when the Labor Minister deems necessary, he may establish standards for the payment of the unemployment allowance in a different manner after consultation with the Unemployment Insurance Advisory Committee.

Article 14.　The right to receive the unemployment allowance shall not be transferred nor be impounded.

Article 15.　No taxes and duties shall be imposed on unemployment allowance.

Article 16.　The expenses for the unemployment allowance shall be wholly borns by the National Treasury, while one third of the expenses for the unemployment insurance benefit stipulated in Art.2, Par.1 shall be borne by the National Treasury and two third of it by the insurance premium paid according to the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Law.

Article 17.　Any person who is dissatisfied with a decision with regard to payment of unemployment allowance may request a hearing by the Unemployment Allowance Referee. When dissatisfied with the decision thus given he may request a hearing by the Unemployment Allowance Appeal Board. When dissatisfied with the decision given by the latter he may institute a lawsuit in an ordinary court.

Article 18.　The Unemployment Allowance Referee shall be appointed by tde Labor Minister and his duties shall be as defined by this Law.

Article 19.　The Unemployment Allowance Appeal Board shall consist of the same number of members representing workers, employers and the public interest respectively, and shall be appointed by the Labor Minister.

Article 20.　The Unemployment Allowance Referee or the Unemployment Allowance Appeal Board may, when considered necessary for investigation, question, witnesses or expert witnesses and make other evidence examination.

Article 21.　Request for hearing, or institution of lawsuit shall be made within sixty days from the date of receipt of written decision. In this case, the provisions of Art.8, Par.2 of the Petition Law shall be applied mutatis mutandis to the request for hearing, and the provisions of Art.158, Par.2 and Art.159 of the Civil Procedure Law to the institution lawsuit.

Artiele 22.　Matters of an administration nature other than provided in the foregoing 5 Articles regarding the Unemployment Allowance Referee and the Unemployment Allowance Appeal Board shall be provided for by Cabinet Order.

Article 23.　The right to receive Unemployment Allowance shall be avoided by prescription after the lapse of one year.

Article 24.　Stamp duty shall not be imposed on documents concerning Unemployment Allowance.

Article 25.　The administration office may, as provided for by ordinance, direct the employer who hired qualified recipient or the qualified recipient himself to take reports or to submit documents concerning changes of employment, wage of the qualified recipient and other necessary matters concerned with the enforcement of this Law, and in case of the qualified recipient the said office may present him at the office.

Article 26.　The administrative office may, when deemed necessary, have the competent officials enter the working places where qualified recipients were employed, question the person concerned or investigate the pertinent decument and ledgers, relating to employment relationship and earnings of the qualified recipients.

Article 27.　An employer stipulated in Article 25, a person concerning stipulated in Art.26, or a qualified recipient who comes under any of the following items shall be subject to imprisonment of not more than six months or to a fine not exceeding ten thousand (10,000) yen for willful violation:

Article 28.　In case the conduct of a representative of a juridical person, or a agent of a juridical or natural person, an employee, etc. concerning the business of a juridical or natural person comes under the provisions of the preceding Article, the said juridical or natural person shall be subject to fine as stipulated in that Article besides the conductor himself is punished.