Supplementary Provisions, Article 6

①A former association that has obtained authorization under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions and that, as provided by its rules, keeps a register, registers the classes and issues of securities, and conducts the business of publicizing the prices of purchase and sale of those securities may, before the effective date, make necessary changes to those rules and obtain the authorization of the Minister of Finance, in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 76 of the New Securities and Exchange Act.

②The rules authorized pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are deemed to be rules authorized pursuant to the provisions of Article 76 of the New Securities and Exchange Act; the register referred to in that paragraph pertaining to the business referred to in that paragraph that the former association conducts as provided by those rules is deemed to be the over-the-counter traded securities register prescribed in Article 75 of the New Securities and Exchange Act; securities whose class and issue are, at the time this Act comes into effect, actually registered in that register are deemed to be over-the-counter traded securities prescribed in Article 76 of the New Securities and Exchange Act; and the registration of the class and issue of those securities in that register is deemed to have been made on the effective date, pursuant to the provisions of Article 75, paragraph (1) of the New Securities and Exchange Act, by the former association that is to continue to exist as a securities dealers association under the provisions of the New Securities and Exchange Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions.