This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding two years from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending Article 4 (excluding the part replacing "Article 24" with "Article 24, paragraph (1)" in items (iv) and (v) of the same Article and the part adding "(meaning the domicile or residence, for a person who has no place of business; the same applies hereinafter)" after "place of business" in item (vii) of the same Article), the provisions amending Article 5, paragraph (1), item (v), the provisions amending Article 6, the provisions amending Article 12, paragraph (1), the provisions amending Article 13, paragraph (2), item (ii), the provisions amending Article 14, paragraph (1), the provisions amending Article 22, paragraph (1) (limited to the part adding "or temporary store" after "place of business" in the same paragraph) and the provisions amending Article 25, paragraph (1), and the provisions of the following Article, Article 5 (excluding the part concerning paragraph (1), item (ii)), Article 6 and Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation.

①A secondhand goods dealer or a secondhand goods market owner may, even before this Act comes into effect, notify the Prefectural Public Safety Commission (hereinafter referred to as "Public Safety Commission") with jurisdiction over the location of its principal place of business (meaning the domicile or residence, for a person who has no place of business; the same applies hereinafter) or secondhand goods market, as provided for by the National Public Safety Commission Rules, of the name and location of the principal place of business or the secondhand goods market, or other place of business or secondhand goods market.

②A Public Safety Commission that has received a notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph from a secondhand goods dealer or a secondhand goods market owner that has places of business or secondhand goods markets within the jurisdictional districts of two or more Public Safety Commissions is to notify the other Public Safety Commissions concerned of the content of the notification.

③A secondhand goods dealer or a secondhand goods market owner that has filed a notification under the provisions of paragraph (1) before this Act comes into effect and that, at the time this Act comes into effect, actually holds a permit under the provisions of Article 3 of the Secondhand Goods Business Act prior to its amendment by this Act (referred to as "the former Act" in Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions) (referred to as a "former Act permit" in the following Article) (excluding a person for whom there has been a change in all or part of the content of the notification during the period from the date on which the notification was filed until the day before the date on which this Act comes into effect (referred to as "the effective date" in the following Article)) is deemed to hold a permit under the provisions of Article 3 of the Secondhand Goods Business Act as amended by this Act (referred to as "the new Act" in Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions) (referred to as a "new Act permit" in the following Article) from the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of its principal place of business or secondhand goods market, respectively.

①With regard to a person deemed to hold a new Act permit pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article (referred to as a "person deemed to hold a new Act permit" in the following paragraph) who had received a former Act permit only for places of business or secondhand goods markets within the jurisdictional district of one Public Safety Commission, the written permit under Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Secondhand Goods Business Act pertaining to that former Act permit (hereinafter referred to as a "former written permit" in this Article) is deemed to be the written permit under the same paragraph pertaining to the new Act permit.

②A person deemed to hold a new Act permit who had received former Act permits for places of business or secondhand goods markets within the jurisdictional districts of two or more Public Safety Commissions must, by the day on which one year elapses from the effective date, apply to the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of its principal place of business or secondhand goods market for the issuance of a written permit under Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Secondhand Goods Business Act pertaining to the new Act permit, attaching the documents specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules and all of the former written permits pertaining to the former Act permits that the person holds.

③When an application under the preceding paragraph has been filed, the Public Safety Commission is to issue a written permit under Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Secondhand Goods Business Act pertaining to the new Act permit in exchange for the former written permits concerned.

④Until the former written permits are submitted to the Public Safety Commission pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) (limited to the period until the day on which one year elapses from the effective date), the former written permits prescribed in that paragraph are deemed to be written permits issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Secondhand Goods Business Act pertaining to the new Act permit.

A cancellation of a permit, a suspension of business or any other disposition or act that the Public Safety Commission has carried out pursuant to the provisions of the former Act, or an application for a permit or any other act that has been carried out pursuant to the provisions of the former Act, is deemed, as provided for by the National Public Safety Commission Rules, to be a cancellation of a permit, a suspension of business or any other disposition or act that the Public Safety Commission has carried out pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the new Act, or an application for a permit or any other act that has been carried out pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the new Act.

①A person who falls under any of the following items is punished with a fine not exceeding 100,000 yen:

②If a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or individual, has committed a violation under the preceding paragraph in connection with the business of the corporation or individual, in addition to the offender being subject to punishment, the corporation or individual is subject to the penalty referred to in that paragraph.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect (or, with regard to the amending provisions prescribed in the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, before those amending provisions come into effect), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for 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.