Supplementary Provisions, Article 8Transitional Measures Concerning Notice, etc. by a Person Receiving Consideration for Transferring Shares, etc.

①In the case where a person who, on December 31, 2015, has had the following beneficial interests or public and corporate bonds (hereinafter referred to as "public and corporate bonds, etc.") entered or recorded, at the business office (meaning a business office or an office; the same applies hereinafter) of a financial instruments business operator or registered financial institution prescribed in Article 224-3, paragraph (1), item (ii) (Notice by a Person Receiving the Consideration for the Transfer of Shares, etc.) of the New Act (hereinafter referred to as a "financial instruments business operator or similar institution"), in the transfer account book of that financial instruments business operator or similar institution prescribed in the Act on Book-Entry Transfer of Corporate Bonds and Shares (Act No. 75 of 2001), or has entrusted them to its custody there, has, by the date on which the person first receives, on or after the Effective Date, payment (including the delivery prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter) of the consideration for the transfer of those public and corporate bonds, etc. (including redemption money or a similar asset prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter), given to the head of the business office of the financial instruments business operator or similar institution a notice equivalent to the notice under the items of Article 342, paragraph (2) (Notice by a Person Receiving the Consideration for the Transfer of Shares, etc.) of the New Order, this case is deemed to be a case where the notice under item (ii) of that paragraph has been given, and the consideration for the transfer of those public and corporate bonds, etc. is deemed to be the consideration for the transfer specified in that item, respectively, and the provisions of that Article apply.

②In the case where a person who, on December 31, 2015, holds public and corporate bonds, etc. receives payment of the consideration for the transfer of public and corporate bonds, etc. on or after the Effective Date, if the payer of that consideration prescribed in Article 224-3, paragraph (1) of the New Act has, as provided by Ministry of Finance Order, a book in which the name or title, domicile, and other matters of the person receiving the payment are entered (limited to one prepared upon the presentation by that person, before the Effective Date, of any of the documents provided for in the items of Article 337, paragraph (2) (Presentation of a Copy of Certificate of Residence and Other Documents in Connection with Notice) of the Former Order), that book is deemed to be the book of Article 343, paragraph (3) (Presentation of a Copy of Certificate of Residence and Other Documents in Connection with Notice by a Person Receiving the Consideration for the Transfer of Shares, etc.) of the New Order, and the provisions of that paragraph apply.