Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 61-2 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Immigration Control Act" in the following paragraph), the time limit for the application under paragraph (1) of that Article by a foreign national who is in Japan at the time this Act comes into effect (excluding a person who came to know, after this Act comes into effect, that the grounds for becoming a refugee had arisen) is the day on which 60 days have elapsed from the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date").