This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding two years and six months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items.

The provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1), Article 16, paragraph (3), Article 69, paragraph (1) and Article 69-2, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to the dismantling of end-of-life automobiles) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act after the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") apply to a motor vehicle delivered by its owner to a collector pursuant to the provisions of the Act on Recycling of End-of-Life Automobiles on or after the day this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), and with regard to a motor vehicle delivered before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1), Article 16, paragraph (3), Article 69, paragraph (1) and Article 69-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act (excluding the part pertaining to the dismantling of end-of-life automobiles) apply to a motor vehicle that comes to fall under the grounds set out in those provisions on or after the Effective Date, and with regard to a motor vehicle that came to fall under those grounds before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 15-2, paragraph (1), Article 16, paragraph (5) and Article 69-2, paragraph (3) of the New Act apply to a motor vehicle for which the day that is the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism prior to the scheduled date of export in those provisions arrives on or after the Effective Date, and with regard to a motor vehicle for which the day that is the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism prior to the scheduled date of that export arrived before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 18, paragraph (2) of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 69-3) apply to a motor vehicle that receives temporary cancellation of registration under the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (2) of the New Act on or after the Effective Date, or a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle whose motor vehicle inspection certificate is surrendered on or after the Effective Date, and with regard to a motor vehicle that received cancellation of registration under the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (2) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act prior to the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") before the Effective Date, or a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle whose motor vehicle inspection certificate was surrendered before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to a motor vehicle that, at the time the provisions amending Article 54 come into effect, is actually subject to an order under the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (1) of the Former Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to a motor vehicle manufacturer, etc. that received a recommendation under the provisions of Article 63-2, paragraph (1) of the Former Act before the day on which the provisions adding one paragraph to Article 63-2 (excluding the part pertaining to device manufacturers, etc.) come into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

In addition to what is prescribed in Article 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, a disposition, procedure or other act carried out before this Act (for the amending provisions set out in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, each of those amending provisions; the same applies in the following Article and Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions) comes into effect under the provisions of the Former Act or orders based thereon, for which the New Act or orders based thereon contain corresponding provisions, is deemed to have been carried out under the corresponding provisions of the New Act or orders based thereon.

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 the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

In addition to what is provided for in Article 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order.