①The provisions of Article 55-18 of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 also apply to detainees (meaning detainees prescribed in Article 55-4, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) who are actually detained in an immigration detention center, etc. prescribed in Article 2, item (xvi) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 at the time this Act comes into effect. In this case, the phrase "upon the commencement of detention at the immigration detention center, etc." in Article 55-18, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 is deemed to be replaced with "promptly after the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan (Act No. 56 of 2023) comes into effect".

②Personal belongings (excluding cash) of a detainee that are actually retained pursuant to the provisions of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 or an order based on it at the time this Act comes into effect are deemed to be articles set forth in Article 55-25, item (ii) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2, and the provisions of Article 55-28 of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply to them.

③Communications of a detainee the sending or receiving of which has been prohibited or restricted pursuant to the provisions of Article 61-7, paragraph (5) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 and which are actually retained pursuant to the provisions of an order based on the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 at the time this Act comes into effect are deemed to be letters kept pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-64, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2.

①With regard to a foreign national without a status of residence (meaning a foreign national without a status of residence prescribed in Article 61-2-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and Articles 15 and 17 of the Supplementary Provisions) who filed an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act (meaning Article 61-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1, or Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 1; the same applies hereinafter) before the Effective Date, in the case where, on or after the Effective Date, a disposition not to grant recognition of refugee status is made (excluding the case where recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection is granted pursuant to the provisions of Article 61-2, paragraph (3) of the Immigration Control Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions)), a disposition not to grant recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection is made, or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act is not granted, and that foreign national without a status of residence has been issued a written deportation order before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern the examination of whether there are circumstances in which that foreign national without a status of residence should be specially permitted to stay, the permission pertaining to status of residence where such circumstances exist, and, where that permission is granted, the revocation of the permission for provisional landing, of the permission for landing under the provisions of Chapter III, Section 4 of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2, or of the permission for landing under the provisions of Chapter III, Section 4 of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1.

②The provisions of Article 61-2-3 of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 do not apply to persons who received, before the Effective Date, permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1, and persons who received permission pertaining to status of residence to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

With regard to the conditions imposed pursuant to the provisions of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (3) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 on a person who received, before the Effective Date, permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1, and the revocation of that permission, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 61-2-7, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply to a person who receives permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act on or after the Effective Date.

With regard to deportation procedures, on the grounds of having fallen under any of the items of Article 24 of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 at the time of receiving the permission, for a foreign national who received, before the Effective Date, permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1, and for a foreign national who received, on or after the Effective Date, permission pertaining to status of residence to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①The provisions of Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply to a foreign national without a status of residence who files an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act on or after the Effective Date.

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4), item (i) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 in the case where the foreign national without a status of residence set forth in the preceding paragraph is a person who has filed an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act before the Effective Date of this Act, the phrase "these applications" in the same item is deemed to be replaced with "these applications (including applications under Article 61-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) filed before the Effective Date of the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan (Act No. 56 of 2023))", and the phrase "having come to fall" with "having come to fall (including having come to fall under either item (i) or (ii) of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (5), and having come to fall under either item (i) or (ii) of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (5) prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 75 of the Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 69 of 2014))".

③The Minister of Justice is to endeavor to make known the contents of the provisions of Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 and other aspects of the system concerning the submission of materials on recognition of refugee status or recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection, so that materials on recognition of refugee status or recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection are properly submitted upon an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act.

④If, on or after the Effective Date of this Act, an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act is filed by a foreign national without a status of residence who, while in Japan before the Effective Date of this Act, filed applications under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act two or more times and who, with respect to each of those applications, has come to fall under either item (i) or (ii) of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (5) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2, or under either item (i) or (ii) of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (5) of the Immigration Control Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 75 of the Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 69 of 2014), the Minister of Justice is to inform that foreign national without a status of residence of the contents of the provisions of Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 and other necessary matters, so that materials showing reasonable grounds for granting recognition of refugee status or recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection are properly submitted.

With regard to the validity period of a refugee travel document issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 61-2-12, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the investigation of facts for making a disposition concerning permission pertaining to status of residence, to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, for a foreign national without a status of residence who filed an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the Effective Date and to acts committed on or after the Effective Date in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①With regard to the application of the provisions of the proviso to Article 50, paragraph (1), the proviso to Article 61-2-5, paragraph (1), and Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4), item (ii) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 during the period until the day before the effective date of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments" in this Article), the term "imprisonment" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work or imprisonment without work".

②With regard to the application of the provisions of the proviso to Article 50, paragraph (1), the proviso to Article 61-2-5, paragraph (1), and Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4), item (ii) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments to a person sentenced to imprisonment with work prescribed in Article 12 of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907; hereinafter referred to as the "Former Penal Code" in this paragraph) prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 2 of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "imprisonment with work") or imprisonment without work prescribed in Article 13 of the Former Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as "imprisonment without work"), a person sentenced to life imprisonment with work or life imprisonment without work is deemed to be a person sentenced to life imprisonment, and a person sentenced to imprisonment with work for a fixed term or imprisonment without work for a fixed term is deemed to be a person sentenced to imprisonment for a fixed term of the same length, respectively.

③With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 71-6 of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 during the period until the day before the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments, the term "imprisonment" in the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work". The same applies to the application of the provisions of the same Article on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments to acts committed before the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments.

The provisions of Article 55-2, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 do not apply until the day before the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (vi) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. (Act No. 28 of 2023; hereinafter referred to as the "Code of Criminal Procedure Amendment Act") come into effect.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 55-72, paragraph (2) and Article 55-73, paragraph (3) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 during the period until the day before the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Basic Act on the Formation of a Digital Society, etc. to Promote Regulatory Reform for the Formation of a Digital Society (Act No. 63 of 2023; hereinafter referred to as the "Digital Regulatory Reform Promotion Act") come into effect, the term "Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "posting it and publishing a notice to that effect at least once in the Official Gazette or other official bulletin or in a newspaper", and the term "Ministry of Justice Order" with "posting it".

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.