This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions of Articles 5, 9 and 11 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date of promulgation.

The Government is to, with a target of three years after this Act comes into effect, take into account the status of the implementation of the provisions as amended by this Act, review those provisions, and, when it finds it necessary, take the required measures based on the results of that review.

A person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is licensed as referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Hotel Business Act prior to its amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "former Hotel Business Act") and is running the business of operating a hotel prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the former Hotel Business Act or the business of operating an inn prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be a person that is licensed as referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Hotel Business Act as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "new Hotel Business Act") and is running the business of operating an inn or hotel prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the new Hotel Business Act.

The provisions of Article 8 of the new Hotel Business Act (limited to the part concerning cases in which a hotelier prescribed in Article 3-2, paragraph (1) of the Hotel Business Act has come to fall under any of the items of Article 3, paragraph (2) of the new Hotel Business Act (excluding item (iv))) do not apply in the case where a person that is licensed as referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the former Hotel Business Act and is running the hotel business prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the former Hotel Business Act, and that, at the time this Act comes into effect, falls under one of Article 3, paragraph (2), item (i), item (ii), item (iii) (excluding the part concerning a person that has been sentenced to punishment for violating the Hotel Business Act or a disposition based on that Act, if three years have not yet passed since the day on which the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its execution), item (vi) (limited to the part concerning a minor who does not have the same legal capacity to act as an adult with respect to business, and whose statutory agent (if the statutory agent is a corporation, this includes any officer of the statutory agent) falls under one of items (i) through (iv) of Article 3, paragraph (2) of the new Hotel Business Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) or item (vii) (limited to the part concerning a corporation that has a person falling under one of item (i), (ii) or (iii) (excluding the part concerning a person that has been sentenced to punishment for violating the Hotel Business Act or a disposition based on that Act, if three years have not yet passed since the day on which the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its execution; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) of Article 3, paragraph (2) of the new Hotel Business Act among the officers engaged in its operations; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) of the new Hotel Business Act, continues to fall under one of item (i), (ii), (iii), (vi) or (vii) of Article 3, paragraph (2) of the new Hotel Business Act, until the day on which three years have elapsed from the date on which this Act comes into effect (referred to as "the effective date" in the following Article and Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions).

①A person seeking to be licensed as referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the new Hotel Business Act and to run the business of operating an inn or hotel prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the new Hotel Business Act may apply for that license even before the effective date, in the same manner as prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the new Hotel Business Act.

②If an application for a license under the provisions of the preceding paragraph has been filed, the prefectural governor (or the mayor of the city, in a city with a health center; or the mayor of the ward, in a special ward) may grant that license even before the effective date, in the same manner as prescribed in Article 3, paragraphs (2) through (6) of the new Hotel Business Act. In this case, the person that has been granted that license is deemed to have been licensed as referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article on the effective date.

The provisions then in force continue to govern the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the effective date.

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