Article 28, paragraph (6)

Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3), ifIf the Minister of Finance and the competent minister for the business hear the opinion of the Council on Customs, Tariffs, Foreign Exchange, and Other Transactions pursuant to the preceding paragraph, but the Council makes a filing indicating that, considering the character of the matter in question, it will be difficult for it to state its opinion within the period of four months prescribed in paragraph (3), the period during which a specified acquisition must not be undertaken as prescribed in that paragraph is five monthsending on the day on which four months elapse from the day on which the notification under paragraph (1) was accepted (or, if the prohibition period has been extended beyond that period pursuant to the provisions of Article 28-3, paragraph (2), the period until the final day of the extended prohibition period), the prohibition period is, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) or paragraph (2) of that Article, the period ending on the day on which five months elapse from the day on which the notification under paragraph (1) was accepted (or, if the prohibition period has been extended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article beyond the period ending on the day on which four months elapse from the day on which the notification under paragraph (1) was accepted, the period ending on the day on which one month elapses from the day following the final day of the extended prohibition period).