This Act comes into effect as of the date on which the Act for Establishment of the Consumer Affairs Agency and the Consumer Commission (Act No. 48 of 2009) comes into effect; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following item come into effect as of the date specified in that item.

①Licenses, permissions, authorizations, approvals, designations, or other dispositions, or notices or other acts, made before this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of the respective laws prior to their amendment by this Act (including orders based on them; hereinafter referred to as "former laws and regulations") are, unless otherwise provided for by laws and regulations, deemed after this Act comes into effect to be licenses, permissions, authorizations, approvals, designations, or other dispositions, or notices or other acts, made pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the respective laws as amended by this Act (including orders based on them; hereinafter referred to as "new laws and regulations").

②Applications for licenses, notifications, or other acts that have been made pursuant to the provisions of the former laws and regulations at the time this Act comes into effect are, unless otherwise provided for by laws and regulations, deemed after this Act comes into effect to be applications for licenses, notifications, or other acts made pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the new laws and regulations.

③With regard to matters for which a report, notification, submission, or other procedure must be made before this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of the former laws and regulations, and for which the procedure has not been made before the effective date of this Act, the provisions of the new laws and regulations apply after this Act comes into effect, deeming those matters to be matters for which the procedure has not been made pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the new laws and regulations, unless otherwise provided for by laws and regulations.

A Cabinet Office Order under Article 7, paragraph (3) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office or a Ministerial Order under Article 12, paragraph (1) of the National Government Organization Act issued pursuant to the provisions of the former laws and regulations is to have effect after this Act comes into effect, unless otherwise provided for by laws and regulations, as the corresponding Cabinet Office Order under Article 7, paragraph (3) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office or the corresponding Ministerial Order under Article 12, paragraph (1) of the National Government Organization Act issued on the basis of the corresponding provisions of the new laws and regulations.

①Fair Trade Commission Rules issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) or Article 12, paragraph (1) or (4) of the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 12 (referred to below in this Article as the "former Premiums and Representations Act") are to have effect as a Cabinet Office Order under Article 7, paragraph (3) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) or Article 11, paragraph (1) or (4) of the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations as amended by the provisions of Article 12 (referred to below in this Article as the "new Premiums and Representations Act").

②A restriction or prohibition under the provisions of Article 3 of the former Premiums and Representations Act made by the Fair Trade Commission before the Effective Date is deemed to be a restriction or prohibition under the provisions of Article 3 of the new Premiums and Representations Act made by the Prime Minister on the Effective Date.

③The provisions of Article 6 of the new Premiums and Representations Act also apply to an act in violation of a restriction or prohibition under the provisions of Article 3 of the former Premiums and Representations Act or of the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the former Premiums and Representations Act that was committed before the Effective Date; provided, however, that in the case where an order under the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (1) of the former Premiums and Representations Act was issued before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern the application of the provisions of the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (Act No. 54 of 1947) with regard to that order and the act of violation relating to that order, and an appeal against that order.

④An agreement or rules that have obtained approval pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1) of the former Premiums and Representations Act at the time this Act comes into effect are deemed to be an agreement or rules that obtained the approval by the Prime Minister and the Fair Trade Commission pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the new Premiums and Representations Act on the Effective Date.

⑤The provisions then in force continue to govern an appeal against a disposition made by the Fair Trade Commission pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1) or (3) of the former Premiums and Representations Act before the Effective Date.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act 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 Supplementary Provisions of this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in Article 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order.