Supplementary Provisions, Article 7

①In the case where a merger of companies is conducted during the period until the day on which 10 years elapse from the Effective Date, if the stock company surviving after the merger or established by the merger is a stock company prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act and comes to own shares of companies in Japan exceeding the standard amount, then during the period from the time of the merger until the day on which 10 years elapse from the Effective Date, the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act apply with the amount specified in each of the following items for the category set out in that item deemed to be the standard amount, provided, however, that this does not apply if the standard amount increases and becomes equal to or more than the amount deemed to be the standard amount.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the amount deemed to be the standard amount is the amount set out in item (i), (b) or item (ii), (b) of the preceding paragraph, then until the day on which one year elapses from the date of the merger, the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act apply with the amount set out in item (i), (a) or item (ii), (a) of the preceding paragraph, respectively, deemed to be the standard amount.