Supplementary Provisions

This Act comes into effect as of April 1, 2000; provided, however, that the provisions listed in the following items come into effect as of the date specified in each of said items:

Beyond the provisions of each law before the amendment by this Act, before this Act comes into force, affairs of the State, other local governments and other public organs that are executed or managed by local government organs pursuant to laws or Cabinet Orders based on these laws (referred to in Article 161 of supplementary provisions as "affairs of the State, etc.") are to be processed by local governments as affairs of said local government pursuant to laws or Cabinet Orders based on these, after this Act comes into force.

①A disposition such as a permission or other act carried out before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those respective provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and in Article 163 of the Supplementary Provisions) comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of the respective Acts prior to amendment (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "disposition or other act"), or an application for a permission or other act actually made pursuant to the provisions of the respective Acts prior to amendment at the time this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to in this Article as an "application or other act"), for which the person who is to carry out the administrative affairs pertaining to that act will differ as of the date on which this Act comes into effect, is, except as provided for in the provisions of Article 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions or in the provisions concerning transitional measures of the respective Acts after amendment (including orders based on them), deemed to be a disposition or other act or an application or other act carried out pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the respective Acts after amendment, with regard to the application of the respective Acts after amendment on or after the date on which this Act comes into effect.

②With regard to matters for which, before this Act comes into effect, a report, notification, submission or other procedure had to be made to an organ of the State or of a local government pursuant to the provisions of the respective Acts prior to amendment and for which that procedure has not been carried out before the date on which this Act comes into effect, except as otherwise provided for in this Act or a Cabinet Order based on it, the provisions of the respective Acts as amended by this Act apply by deeming those matters to be matters for which a report, notification, submission or other procedure must be made to the corresponding organ of the State or of a local government pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the respective Acts after amendment and for which that procedure has not been carried out.

①With regard to an appeal under the Administrative Appeal Act against a disposition pertaining to affairs of the State, etc. that was made before the Effective Date and for which the administrative agency that made the disposition (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "the agency that made the disposition") had, before the Effective Date, a higher administrative agency prescribed in that Act (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "higher administrative agency"), the provisions of the Administrative Appeal Act apply by deeming the agency that made the disposition to continue to have a higher administrative agency even on or after the Effective Date. In this case, the administrative agency deemed to be the higher administrative agency of the agency that made the disposition is the administrative agency that was the higher administrative agency of that agency before the Effective Date.

②In case of the preceding paragraph, when an administrative agency regarded as a higher administrative agency is an organ of a local public entity, the affairs said organ must process pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Appeal Act are the No. 1 statutory entrusted function provided for in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i), of the New Local Autonomy Act.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed prior to the enforcement of this Act, the provisions then in force remain applicable.

Beyond the provisions in this supplementary provisions, other transitional measures (including transitional measures concerning punishment.) necessary to the enforcement of this Act are provided for by Cabinet Orders.

Adding new functions to No. 1 statutory entrusted function provided for in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the New Local Autonomy Act is to be avoided as much as possible, and functions listed in Attached Table No. 1 in the New Local Autonomy Act and the functions specified by Cabinet Orders based on the New Local Autonomy Act are to be reviewed in light of promoting the decentralization, and, when appropriate, properly changed.

The government, in order to allow local governments to execute their duties and procedures individually and independently, is to review policies concerning securing financial resources according to the division of roles between the national and local governments, taking into consideration changes in the economic situation, and, based on these results, take the necessary measures.