Supplementary Provisions

①This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending Article 37, paragraph (2) come into effect as of the date of promulgation.

②Article 4, paragraph (3) and Article 5 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 30-6 of the New Act) and Article 30-2, paragraph (3) of the Installment Sales Act after amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") apply to those payment moneys, among the payment moneys pertaining to an installment sale prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the New Act or to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3), item (iii) of that Article, concerning designated goods, the due date of which arrives on or after the day on which this Act comes into effect.

③With regard to a contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sale prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the New Act or the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article, an offer received before this Act comes into effect by an installment seller or loan-affiliated installment seller that relates to a contract to sell designated goods by the method of installment sale prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i) of that Article or the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article, and a contract concluded after this Act comes into effect that relates to that offer, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding Article 4-3 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4 of the New Act).

④Article 4-3 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4 and Article 30-6 of the New Act) does not apply to a contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sale prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the New Act, the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in paragraph (2), item (ii) of that Article, or the method of sale pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article, to an offer received before this Act comes into effect by an installment seller, loan-affiliated installment seller or seller affiliated with the intermediation of installment purchases that relates to a contract to sell designated goods by the method of installment sale prescribed in paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Article, the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in paragraph (2), item (ii) of that Article, or the method of sale pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article, or to a contract concluded after this Act comes into effect that relates to that offer.

⑤Article 6, paragraph (2) and Article 30-3 of the New Act do not apply to a contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sale, or which relates to the receipt of an amount equivalent to the price of designated goods purchased by the method of purchase pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases.

⑥Article 30-4 of the New Act applies to the amounts to be paid referred to in Article 30-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) or paragraph (5), item (ii) of the New Act that relate to designated goods purchased by a purchaser, on or after the day on which this Act comes into effect, by the method of purchase pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii) of the New Act.

⑦Article 30-5 of the New Act applies to the payment of those payment moneys, among the payment moneys pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (iii) of the New Act that relate to a voucher, etc. (meaning the voucher, etc. prescribed in paragraph (3), item (i) of that Article; the same applies below) in exchange for which or by presenting which a purchaser purchased designated goods on or after the day on which this Act comes into effect, that would be deemed to relate to those goods if Article 30-5 of the New Act were applied.

⑧Article 31 of the New Act does not apply to a person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually engaged in the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (iii) of the New Act as a business, only in a case that falls under one of the following:

⑨Dispositions, procedures and other acts carried out in relation to specified prepaid transactions before this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of the Installment Sales Act prior to amendment or of orders based on the provisions of that Act are deemed to be dispositions, procedures and other acts carried out in relation to specified prepaid transactions pursuant to the provisions of the New Act or of orders based on the provisions of the New Act.

⑩With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.