①A person who conducts, among the electronic disclosure procedures, the procedures under the provisions of Article 7 of the New Securities and Exchange Act (limited to where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-2, paragraph (1) and Article 24-5, paragraph (5) (including where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27)), Article 9, paragraph (1) (excluding the latter part of that paragraph, and limited to where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-2, paragraph (1) and Article 24-5, paragraph (5) (including where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27)), Article 10, paragraph (1) (excluding the latter part of that paragraph, and limited to where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-2, paragraph (1) and Article 24-5, paragraph (5) (including where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27)), Article 23-3, paragraph (4) (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27), Article 24, paragraph (1) or (3) (including where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27) and Article 27), Article 24-5, paragraph (1) (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27)) or paragraph (4) (including where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27), or Article 25, paragraph (4) (limited to those pertaining to the documents set forth in paragraph (1), items (iv) through (vi) of that Article, and including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27) (hereinafter referred to as a "continuous disclosure procedure") may do so, from June 1, 2001 through May 31, 2004, as provided by Cabinet Order, by using the electronic data processing system for disclosure prescribed in Article 27-30-2 of the New Securities and Exchange Act (referred to as the "electronic data processing system for disclosure" in paragraph (3) and the following Article). In this case, the procedure is deemed to have reached the Cabinet Office at the time when it is recorded in a file stored on the computer referred to in Article 27-30-2 of the New Securities and Exchange Act (referred to simply as the "file" in paragraph (4)).

②With regard to a continuous disclosure procedure conducted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of the New Securities and Exchange Act or Orders under It (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "New Securities and Exchange Act or Orders under It") apply, with that procedure deemed to have been conducted by the document prescribed in those provisions of the New Securities and Exchange Act or Orders under It that prescribe that continuous disclosure procedure as one to be conducted by a document.

③A person who conducts a continuous disclosure procedure using the electronic data processing system for disclosure pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of paragraph (1) may, if unable to conduct that continuous disclosure procedure using the electronic data processing system for disclosure due to a failure in telecommunication lines or any other cause, conduct that continuous disclosure procedure by submitting a magnetic disk (including an object capable of reliably recording certain particulars by a method equivalent thereto; the same applies in the following paragraph and the following Article), instead of using the electronic data processing system for disclosure, with the approval of the Prime Minister and as provided by Cabinet Order.

④If a continuous disclosure procedure has been conducted by the submission of a magnetic disk pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister must immediately record the particulars recorded on that magnetic disk in the file, as provided by Cabinet Office Order. In this case, the continuous disclosure procedure is deemed to have reached the Cabinet Office at the time when it is recorded in the file.

⑤The provisions of paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a continuous disclosure procedure conducted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.

⑥The provisions of Article 3 of the Act on the Use of Information and Communications Technology in Administrative Procedures, etc. (Act No. 151 of 2002) do not apply to electronic disclosure procedures.

①A person who conducts a continuous disclosure procedure must, if the person has conducted that continuous disclosure procedure using the electronic data processing system for disclosure pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including where the person has done so by submitting a magnetic disk pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article), conduct all continuous disclosure procedures conducted on or after that continuous disclosure procedure using the electronic data processing system for disclosure, as provided by Cabinet Order. In this case, the provisions of the second sentence of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis.

②A person who must conduct a continuous disclosure procedure pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may, if unable to conduct that continuous disclosure procedure using the electronic data processing system for disclosure due to a failure in telecommunication lines or any other cause, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, conduct that continuous disclosure procedure by submitting a magnetic disk, instead of using the electronic data processing system for disclosure, with the approval of the Prime Minister and as provided by Cabinet Order. In this case, the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis.

③If a case falls under any of the following items and the Prime Minister approves, the provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply.

④The procedures for the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph are specified by Cabinet Office Order.

The provisions of the preceding two Articles apply mutatis mutandis to a person who conducts electronic disclosure procedures other than continuous disclosure procedures. In this case, the phrase "June 1, 2001" in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed to be replaced with "the date specified in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions".

Dispositions, procedures, or other acts carried out before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions) comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of the respective Acts prior to amendment, for which the respective Acts after amendment contain equivalent provisions, are deemed to have been carried out pursuant to the equivalent provisions of the respective Acts after amendment, except as otherwise provided for in these Supplementary Provisions.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in Articles 2 through 11 of the Supplementary Provisions and the preceding Article, transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.

When five years have elapsed after this Act comes into effect, the government is to take into account the enforcement status of the New Securities and Exchange Act and the New Financial Futures Trading Act, changes in socioeconomic conditions, etc., review the system concerning the securities exchanges prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (16) of the New Securities and Exchange Act and the financial futures exchanges prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) of the New Financial Futures Trading Act, and take the required measures based on the results of the review if it finds this to be necessary.