This Act comes into effect on the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year and six months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions listed in the following items come into effect as of the date specified in the respective items.

The provisions of Article 69, paragraph (2) of the Antimonopoly Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 apply to the part of the delinquency charges that corresponds to the period on or after the day specified in item (ii) of the preceding Article, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the part of those delinquency charges that corresponds to the period before that day.

With regard to a violation prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Antimonopoly Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Antimonopoly Act"), or in Article 8-2, paragraph (2) or Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Antimonopoly Act, for which five years have elapsed from the day on which the act ceased at the time this Act comes into effect, notwithstanding Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Antimonopoly Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Antimonopoly Act") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 8-2, paragraph (2) and Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Antimonopoly Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), the measures prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2) of the New Antimonopoly Act cannot be ordered.

Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of the New Antimonopoly Act also apply to the procedures for ordering payment of a surcharge for a pre-effective-date violation (meaning any of the violations prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (1), (2) or (4), Article 8-3 or Articles 20-2 through 20-6 of the Former Antimonopoly Act that was committed before the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"); the same applies in the following Article and Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions).

①With regard to a pre-effective-date violation (limited to one prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 8-3 of the Former Antimonopoly Act) for which five years have elapsed from the day on which its period of implementation (meaning the period of implementation prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of the Former Antimonopoly Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article and Article 8-3 of the Former Antimonopoly Act)) ended at the time this Act comes into effect, notwithstanding Article 7-8, paragraph (6) of the New Antimonopoly Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 7-9, paragraph (3) and Article 8-3 of the New Antimonopoly Act), payment of a surcharge cannot be ordered.

②With regard to a pre-effective-date violation (limited to one prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (4) of the Former Antimonopoly Act) for which five years have elapsed from the day on which its violation period (meaning the violation period prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (4) of the Former Antimonopoly Act) ended at the time this Act comes into effect, notwithstanding Article 7-8, paragraph (6) of the New Antimonopoly Act as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 7-9, paragraph (4) of the New Antimonopoly Act, payment of a surcharge cannot be ordered.

③With regard to a pre-effective-date violation (limited to one prescribed in Articles 20-2 through 20-6 of the Former Antimonopoly Act) for which five years have elapsed from the day on which the act prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (27) of the Former Antimonopoly Act, as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 20-7 of the Former Antimonopoly Act, ceased at the time this Act comes into effect, notwithstanding Article 7-8, paragraph (6) of the New Antimonopoly Act as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 20-7 of the New Antimonopoly Act, payment of a surcharge cannot be ordered.

①The provisions then in force continue to govern the calculation of the amount of the surcharge for a pre-effective-date violation that had already ceased before the Effective Date.

②The provisions then in force continue to govern the calculation of the amount of the surcharge (limited to the part relating to the pre-effective-date violation) for an act that began as a pre-effective-date violation (limited to one prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 8-3 of the Former Antimonopoly Act) and ceased on or after the Effective Date (limited to one that, on or after the Effective Date, falls under a violation prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (1), Article 7-9, paragraph (1) or Article 8-3 of the New Antimonopoly Act), notwithstanding Article 7-2 of the New Antimonopoly Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 7-9, paragraph (3) or Article 8-3 of the New Antimonopoly Act), Article 7-3 of the New Antimonopoly Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 7-9, paragraph (3) of the New Antimonopoly Act), Article 7-8, paragraph (4) of the New Antimonopoly Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 7-9, paragraph (3) of the New Antimonopoly Act, and limited to the part relating to the application of Articles 7-2 and 7-3 of the New Antimonopoly Act) and Article 7-9, paragraph (1) of the New Antimonopoly Act. In this case, the phrase "to the day on which the business activities as the implementation of the act cease, the period (if that period exceeds three years, the three years going back from the day on which the business activities as the implementation of the act cease" in Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of the Former Antimonopoly Act is deemed to be replaced with "(if the day on which the business activities were carried out falls before the day 10 years prior to the day on which a disposition listed in Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i), (iii) or (iv), a disposition prescribed in Article 102, paragraph (1) or (2), or a disposition listed in each item of Article 103-3 was first made against that enterprise regarding the violation (or, if no such disposition was made against that enterprise, the day on which that enterprise received advance notification (meaning the advance notification prescribed in paragraph (6)) regarding the violation), or before the day three years prior to the day on which the Act Partially Amending the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (Act No. 45 of 2019) comes into effect (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "Effective Date of the Amending Act"), the later of that day 10 years prior or that day three years prior) to the day before the Effective Date of the Amending Act, the period (".

③The provisions then in force continue to govern the calculation of the amount of the surcharge (limited to the part relating to the pre-effective-date violation) for an act that began as a pre-effective-date violation (limited to one prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (4) of the Former Antimonopoly Act) and ceased on or after the Effective Date (limited to one that, on or after the Effective Date, falls under a violation prescribed in Article 7-9, paragraph (2) of the New Antimonopoly Act), notwithstanding Article 7-9, paragraph (2) of the New Antimonopoly Act, and Article 7-2, Article 7-3 and Article 7-8, paragraph (4) of the New Antimonopoly Act (limited to the part relating to the application of Articles 7-2 and 7-3) as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 7-9, paragraph (4) of the New Antimonopoly Act. In this case, the phrase "to the day on which the act ceases, the period (if that period exceeds three years, the three years going back from the day on which the act ceases" in Article 7-2, paragraph (4) of the Former Antimonopoly Act is deemed to be replaced with "(if the day on which the act was carried out falls before the day 10 years prior to the day on which a disposition listed in Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i), (iii) or (iv), a disposition prescribed in Article 102, paragraph (1) or (2), or a disposition listed in each item of Article 103-3 was first made against that enterprise regarding the violation (or, if no such disposition was made against that enterprise, the day on which that enterprise received advance notification (meaning the advance notification prescribed in paragraph (6)) regarding the violation), or before the day three years prior to the day on which the Act Partially Amending the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (Act No. 45 of 2019) comes into effect (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "Effective Date of the Amending Act"), the later of that day 10 years prior or that day three years prior) to the day before the Effective Date of the Amending Act, the period (".

④The provisions then in force continue to govern the calculation of the amount of the surcharge (limited to the part relating to the pre-effective-date violation) for an act that began as a pre-effective-date violation (limited to one prescribed in Articles 20-2 through 20-6 of the Former Antimonopoly Act) and ceased on or after the Effective Date (limited to one that, on or after the Effective Date, falls under a violation prescribed in Articles 20-2 through 20-6 of the New Antimonopoly Act), notwithstanding Articles 20-2 through 20-6 of the New Antimonopoly Act, and Article 7-2 and Article 7-8, paragraph (4) of the New Antimonopoly Act (limited to the part relating to the application of Article 7-2) as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 20-7 of the New Antimonopoly Act. In this case, the phrase "to the day on which the act ceases, the period (if that period exceeds three years, the three years going back from the day on which the act ceases)" in Article 20-2 of the Former Antimonopoly Act is deemed to be replaced with "(if the day on which the act was carried out falls before the day 10 years prior to the day on which a disposition listed in Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i), (iii) or (iv) was first made against that enterprise regarding the violation (or, if no such disposition was made against that enterprise, the day on which that enterprise received advance notification (meaning the advance notification prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (6); the same applies hereinafter in this Chapter) regarding the violation), or before the day three years prior to the day on which the Act Partially Amending the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (Act No. 45 of 2019) comes into effect (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to as the "Effective Date of the Amending Act"), the later of that day 10 years prior or that day three years prior) to the day before the Effective Date of the Amending Act, the period", and where the phrase "to the day on which the act ceases, the period (if that period exceeds three years, the three years going back from the day on which the act ceases)" appears in the provisions of Articles 20-3 through 20-5 and in Article 20-6 of the Former Antimonopoly Act, it is deemed to be replaced with "(if the day on which the act was carried out falls before the day 10 years prior to the day on which a disposition listed in Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i), (iii) or (iv) was first made against that enterprise regarding the violation (or, if no such disposition was made against that enterprise, the day on which that enterprise received advance notification regarding the violation), or before the day three years prior to the Effective Date of the Amending Act, the later of that day 10 years prior or that day three years prior) to the day before the Effective Date of the Amending Act, the period".

⑤The provisions then in force continue to govern the reduction of the amount of the surcharge and the exemption from payment of the surcharge for an enterprise that, before the Effective Date, made a report of facts and submission of materials pursuant to Article 7-2, paragraph (10), item (i) of the Former Antimonopoly Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 8-3 of the Former Antimonopoly Act), paragraph (11), items (i) through (iii) of that Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 8-3 of the Former Antimonopoly Act), or paragraph (12), item (i) of that Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 8-3 of the Former Antimonopoly Act), notwithstanding Articles 7-4 through 7-6 of the New Antimonopoly Act (including where these provisions apply mutatis mutandis following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 8-3 of the New Antimonopoly Act).