This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the days specified in those items.

The provisions of Article 27-2, paragraph (1) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (limited to the amending provisions set forth in item (iii) of the preceding Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) (referred to as the "item (iii) New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act" in Articles 5 and 6 of the Supplementary Provisions) apply to the purchase, etc. of share certificates, etc. prescribed in that paragraph that is made on or after the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in that item (hereinafter referred to as the "item (iii) effective date"), and with respect to the purchase, etc. of share certificates, etc. prescribed in Article 27-2, paragraph (1) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (referred to as the "item (iii) Old Financial Instruments and Exchange Act" in the following Article through Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions) that was made before the item (iii) effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Chapter II-2, Section 1 of the item (iii) Old Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and the provisions of Chapter VI-2 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act pertaining to these provisions to the tender offer prescribed in Article 27-3, paragraph (1) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act pertaining to the public notice of commencement of the tender offer prescribed in Article 27-3, paragraph (2) of the item (iii) Old Financial Instruments and Exchange Act that was made before the item (iii) effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Chapter II-2, Section 2 of the item (iii) Old Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and the provisions of Chapter VI-2 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act pertaining to these provisions to the tender offer prescribed in Article 27-3, paragraph (1) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-22-2, paragraph (2) of that Act, pertaining to the public notice of commencement of the tender offer prescribed in Article 27-3, paragraph (2) of the item (iii) Old Financial Instruments and Exchange Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-22-2, paragraph (2) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act that was made before the item (iii) effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

If, at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "item (iii) amending provisions"), the holding ratio of share certificates, etc. prescribed in Article 27-23, paragraph (4) of the item (iii) New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "new ownership ratio of share certificates, etc.") differs from the ratio that would be the holding ratio of share certificates, etc. prescribed in that paragraph if Article 27-23, paragraph (4) of the item (iii) Old Financial Instruments and Exchange Act were applied at the time of enforcement of the item (iii) amending provisions (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "former ownership ratio of share certificates, etc."), the new ownership ratio of share certificates, etc. is deemed to have increased or decreased, at the time of enforcement of the item (iii) amending provisions, by the ratio corresponding to the difference between the new ownership ratio of share certificates, etc. and the former ownership ratio of share certificates, etc., and the provisions of Chapter II-3 of the item (iii) New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and the provisions of Chapter VI-2 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and Chapter VIII of the item (iii) New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act pertaining to these provisions apply. In this case, with regard to the application of Article 27-25, paragraph (1) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act to that increase or decrease in the new ownership ratio of share certificates, etc., the phrase "has increased or decreased by one percent or more (unless this is not linked to an increase or decrease in the total number of share certificates, etc. held by that person; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter)" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "has increased or decreased by one percent or more".

With regard to the submission of the document specified in each of the following items in the case where it has become necessary, before the item (iii) effective date, to submit it pursuant to the provisions set forth in that item, notwithstanding Article 27-23, paragraphs (3) through (5) of the item (iii) New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.