This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation.

Dispositions, procedures and other acts carried out pursuant to the provisions of the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade prior to amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") are deemed to have been carried out pursuant to the provisions of the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade after amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act").

①The provisions of Article 7, paragraph (2) of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 8-2, paragraph (2) and Article 20, paragraph (2) of the New Act) and Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 8-3 of the New Act) do not apply to acts that have already ceased to exist before the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date").

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 8-3 of the New Act) to an act that began before the Effective Date and ended on or after the Effective Date, the period from the Effective Date until the day on which the business activities as the implementation of the act cease is deemed to be the period of implementation.

The provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1), items (v), (vi), (viii) and (ix) of the New Act also apply to shares acquired by a stock company subject to the application of the provisions of that paragraph during the period from January 1, 1977 to the day preceding the Effective Date. In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of items (vi) and (ix) of that paragraph to a stock company subject to the application of the provisions of that paragraph on the Effective Date, the phrase "in advance" in item (vi) of that paragraph and the phrase "in advance (or, in the case of acquisition due to urgent and unavoidable circumstances, without delay after the acquisition)" in item (ix) of that paragraph are deemed to be replaced with "without delay after the enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (Act No. 63 of 1977)".

①With regard to a stock company prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act, if the amount set out in item (i) exceeds the standard amount on the Effective Date (meaning the standard amount prescribed in that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter), for 10 years from the Effective Date the provisions of that paragraph apply with the lesser of the amounts set out in the following items (hereinafter referred to as the "special standard amount") deemed to be the standard amount, provided, however, that this does not apply if the special standard amount is equal to or less than the standard amount, or if the standard amount increases and becomes equal to or more than the special standard amount.

②With regard to a stock company prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act, if the amount set out in item (i) of the preceding paragraph exceeds the special standard amount (or, in the case falling under the proviso to that paragraph, the standard amount), for one year from the Effective Date, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article apply with the amount set out in that item deemed to be the standard amount.

The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a stock company that has come to be subject to the application of the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act after the Effective Date (excluding one that has come to be subject to the application of the provisions of that paragraph by a merger). In this case, the phrase "on the Effective Date" in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "on the day on which it came to be subject to the application of the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act", the phrase "during that period" with "during the period from January 1, 1977 to the day preceding the day on which it came to be subject to the application of the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act", and the phrase "the Effective Date" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "the day on which it came to be subject to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article".

①In the case where a merger of companies is conducted during the period until the day on which 10 years elapse from the Effective Date, if the stock company surviving after the merger or established by the merger is a stock company prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act and comes to own shares of companies in Japan exceeding the standard amount, then during the period from the time of the merger until the day on which 10 years elapse from the Effective Date, the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act apply with the amount specified in each of the following items for the category set out in that item deemed to be the standard amount, provided, however, that this does not apply if the standard amount increases and becomes equal to or more than the amount deemed to be the standard amount.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the amount deemed to be the standard amount is the amount set out in item (i), (b) or item (ii), (b) of the preceding paragraph, then until the day on which one year elapses from the date of the merger, the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act apply with the amount set out in item (i), (a) or item (ii), (a) of the preceding paragraph, respectively, deemed to be the standard amount.