Supplementary Provisions

This Act comes into effect on October 1, 2008; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items:

With regard to the application of the provisions of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act to short-term Shoko Chukin bonds issued by the pre-conversion juridical person before the effective date, those short-term Shoko Chukin bonds are deemed to be securities listed in Article 33, paragraph (2), item (i) of that Act.

Dispositions, procedures and other acts carried out before this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of each Act prior to amendment (including orders based on it; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), for which there are equivalent provisions in each Act as amended, are deemed, unless otherwise provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, to have been carried out pursuant to the equivalent provisions of each Act as amended.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) 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 these Supplementary Provisions and in the cases where provisions remain in force pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.