This Act comes into effect on the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year and six months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions listed in the following items come into effect as of the date specified in the respective items.

①A request already received from the other party, or a consent already obtained from the other party, regarding the doing of something equivalent to the email advertising mail order sales prescribed in Article 12-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions"), the email advertising multilevel marketing transactions prescribed in Article 36-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions, or the email advertising business opportunity sales transactions prescribed in Article 54-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "email advertising mail order sales, etc."), at the time the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, is deemed to be a request received from the other party, or a consent obtained from the other party, regarding the doing of email advertising mail order sales, etc.

②A manifestation of intention already made at the time the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, to the effect that a person does not wish to receive something equivalent to email advertising mail order sales, etc., is deemed to be a manifestation of intention prescribed in Article 12-3, paragraph (2) of the item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 12-4, paragraph (2) of the item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions), Article 36-3, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 36-4, paragraph (2) of the item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions), or Article 54-3, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-4, paragraph (2) of the item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions).

③The provisions of Article 12-3, paragraph (3) of the item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (including as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to Article 12-4, paragraph (2) of the item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions), Article 36-3, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to Article 36-4, paragraph (2) of the item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions), and Article 54-3, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to Article 54-4, paragraph (2) of the item (ii) new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions) do not apply to email advertising mail order sales, etc. based on a request received from the other party, or a consent obtained from the other party, regarding the doing of something equivalent to email advertising mail order sales, etc. before the day on which the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect.

①The provisions of Article 4 and Article 18 of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions") apply to an offer to enter into a sales contract or a service contract that a seller or a service provider received after this Act comes into effect, and the provisions then in force continue to govern an offer to enter into a sales contract or a service contract for designated goods or designated rights or designated services prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions before amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as "specified designated goods, rights or services") that a seller or a service provider received before this Act comes into effect.

②The provisions of Article 5 and Article 19 of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions apply to a sales contract or a service contract concluded after this Act comes into effect, and the provisions then in force continue to govern a sales contract or a service contract for specified designated goods, rights or services concluded before this Act comes into effect.

③The provisions of Article 9 and Article 24 of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions apply to an offer to enter into a sales contract or a service contract that a seller or a service provider received after this Act comes into effect, or to a sales contract or a service contract concluded after this Act comes into effect (excluding one for which the offer was received before this Act comes into effect), and the provisions then in force continue to govern an offer to enter into a sales contract or a service contract for specified designated goods, rights or services that a seller or a service provider received before this Act comes into effect, a sales contract or a service contract concluded after this Act comes into effect pursuant to such an offer, or a sales contract or a service contract for specified designated goods, rights or services concluded before this Act comes into effect.

④The provisions of Article 9-2 of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions do not apply to an offer to enter into a sales contract or a service contract that a seller or a service provider received before this Act comes into effect, a sales contract or a service contract concluded after this Act comes into effect pursuant to such an offer, or a sales contract or a service contract concluded before this Act comes into effect.

⑤The provisions of Article 10 and Article 25 of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions do not apply to a sales contract or a service contract concluded before this Act comes into effect (excluding one connected with specified designated goods, rights or services).

⑥A request already received from the other party, or a consent already obtained from the other party, regarding the doing of the email advertising mail order sales prescribed in Article 12-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (excluding one connected with specified designated goods, rights or services) at the time this Act comes into effect, is deemed to be a request received from the other party, or a consent obtained from the other party, regarding the doing of email advertising mail order sales.

⑦A manifestation of intention already made at the time this Act comes into effect, to the effect that a person does not wish to receive the email advertising mail order sales prescribed in Article 12-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (excluding one connected with specified designated goods, rights or services), is deemed to be a manifestation of intention prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 12-4, paragraph (2) of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions).

⑧The provisions of Article 12-3, paragraph (3) of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (including as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to Article 12-4, paragraph (2) of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions) do not apply to email advertising mail order sales based on a request received from the other party, or a consent obtained from the other party, regarding the doing of the email advertising mail order sales prescribed in Article 12-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (excluding one connected with specified designated goods, rights or services) before the day on which this Act comes into effect.

⑨The provisions of Article 13 and Article 20 of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions do not apply to an offer to enter into a sales contract or a service contract that a seller or a service provider received before this Act comes into effect (excluding one connected with specified designated goods, rights or services).

⑩The provisions of Article 15-2 of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions do not apply to an offer to enter into a sales contract that a seller received before this Act comes into effect, a sales contract concluded after this Act comes into effect pursuant to such an offer, or a sales contract concluded before this Act comes into effect.

⑪The competent minister specified in Article 67, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions may, even before the day on which this Act comes into effect, consult with the Consumer Commission and the Consumer Affairs Council, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, for the purpose of planning the enactment of a Cabinet Order under Article 26, paragraph (1), item (viii)(d), paragraph (2), the items of paragraph (3), paragraph (4), item (i) or item (ii), paragraph (5), item (ii), or paragraph (6), item (ii) of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions.

⑫The competent minister specified in Article 67, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions may, even before the day on which this Act comes into effect, consult with the Consumer Commission and the Consumer Affairs Council, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, for the purpose of planning the enactment of a Cabinet Order under Article 26, paragraph (4), item (iii) or paragraph (6), item (i) of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions.

⑬With respect to a person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is currently using in its name or trade name characters that are likely to cause it to be mistaken for a door-to-door sales association or a member of a door-to-door sales association, or a mail order sales association or a member of a mail order sales association, the provisions of Article 28 and Article 31 of the new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions do not apply for six months after this Act comes into effect.

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 the preceding two Articles, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in Article 3 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order.

The government is to, in the case where five years have elapsed after this Act comes into effect, review the state of enforcement of the provisions of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions and the Installment Sales Act as amended by this Act, and, when it finds it necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results of that review.