This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the days specified in those items.

With regard to the disposition of permission or non-permission concerning an application for permission for the drilling of land or the additional drilling of a hot spring channel filed under the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) or Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Hot Spring Act prior to its amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as "the former Act") before this Act comes into effect, for which no disposition of permission or non-permission has been made at the time this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①The provisions of Article 7-2 of the Hot Spring Act as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as "the new Act") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (2) of the new Act) do not apply to a person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is drilling land with the permission referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the former Act or a person that is expanding a hot spring channel with the permission referred to in Article 11, paragraph (1) of the former Act (including a person that has obtained the permission after this Act comes into effect in accordance with the provisions then in force pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article; referred to as a "permitted driller, etc." in the following paragraph).

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 9 of the new Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (2) of the new Act) to a permitted driller, etc., the phrase "Article 4, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii)" in Article 9, paragraph (1), item (i) of the new Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i) or item (iii)".

With regard to a person that, before this Act comes into effect, completed or discontinued the drilling construction related to the permission referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the former Act or the additional drilling construction related to the permission referred to in Article 11, paragraph (1) of the former Act, or a person whose permission referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1) or Article 11, paragraph (1) of the former Act was revoked, the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (3) of the new Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (2) of the new Act) do not apply.

A person that is engaged in the extraction of hot springs from a hot spring source as a business at the time this Act comes into effect may continue to engage in the extraction of the hot springs as a business for six months counting from the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as "the effective date") (or, if a disposition of non-permission is made on an application for the permission referred to in Article 14-2, paragraph (1) of the new Act within that period, until the day on which the disposition is made), notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph. The same applies until a disposition of permission or non-permission is made on the application, if the person has applied for the permission referred to in that paragraph within that period and that period has elapsed.

A person intending to extract hot springs from a hot spring source in the course of business may, even before the effective date, receive the confirmation from the prefectural governor in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 14-5, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the new Act. In this case, the person that has received the confirmation is deemed to have received the confirmation from the prefectural governor pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article on the effective date.

Beyond what is prescribed in Articles 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.

If five years have elapsed since this Act came into effect, the Government is to take into consideration the status of enforcement of the new Act, and, when it finds it to be necessary, review the provisions of the new Act and take the necessary measures based on the results of the review.