Supplementary Provisions

This Act comes into effect on the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 12 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on the date of promulgation.

③Beyond what is provided for in the preceding two paragraphs, in the case where three years have elapsed after this Act comes into effect, the government is to take into consideration the status of enforcement of the provisions of each Act as amended by this Act and, when it finds it necessary, is to review those provisions and take necessary measures based on the results of that review.

①The provisions of Article 56 of the Food Sanitation Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "New Food Sanitation Act") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 57, paragraph (2) of the New Food Sanitation Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act) and Article 68, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act) do not apply to a person who has taken over business (meaning business prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (7) of the Food Sanitation Act (including the case prescribed in Article 68, paragraph (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act); referred to simply as "business" in the following paragraph) in the case where that business was transferred before the Effective Date.

②A prefectural governor must, for the time being, investigate at least once the status of operations of a person who has succeeded to the position of an approved business operator or a notifying business operator pursuant to the provisions of Article 56, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 57, paragraph (2) of the New Food Sanitation Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act) and Article 68, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act) (limited to a person who has succeeded to that position by transfer of business), during the period until six months elapse counting from the day on which that position was succeeded to.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in a case where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in Article 3 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order.