Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act

The provisions of Article 2, paragraph (3), items (i) and (ii) and paragraph (4), item (i), Article 23-13, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27 of the New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act) and Article 27-31 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act") apply to solicitation with a view to issuing new securities prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act or solicitation with a view to delivering existing securities prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article that begins on or after the date of enforcement of this Act (except in the following Article, hereinafter referred to as "the effective date"), and the provisions then in force continue to govern solicitation with a view to issuing new securities prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act as it was prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Financial Instruments and Exchange Act") or solicitation with a view to delivering existing securities prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article that began before the effective date.