Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Treatment in the Event of Establishment, Abolition, Division, or Merger of Municipalities, etc.

In the case where, after the day of enforcement of this Ministerial Order (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), there has been an establishment, abolition, division, or merger of, or a boundary change to, municipalities in the Chuetsu Area of Niigata Prefecture (including the case where there has been such an establishment, abolition, division, merger, or boundary change between a municipality in the Chuetsu Area of Niigata Prefecture and another municipality), the provisions of this Ministerial Order apply by deeming the part of the area of a municipality newly established or whose boundaries have been changed by that establishment, abolition, division, merger, or boundary change that was the Chuetsu Area of Niigata Prefecture on the Effective Date to be the Chuetsu Area of Niigata Prefecture.