This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding 9 months from the date of promulgation.

①A person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, holds the license referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Businesses and Improving the Working Conditions of Dispatched Workers prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (referred to below as the "former Worker Dispatching Act") (that license is referred to below in this paragraph as a "former license") is deemed to have obtained, on the effective date, the license referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Businesses and Improving the Working Conditions of Dispatched Workers as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (referred to below as the "new Worker Dispatching Act") (that license is referred to below in this paragraph as a "new license"). In such a case, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (1) of the new Worker Dispatching Act, the validity period of the new license of a person deemed to have obtained that new license is the same period as the longest of the remaining validity periods of that person's former licenses as of the effective date.

②A person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, has applied for the license referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the former Worker Dispatching Act (excluding the persons prescribed in the following paragraph) is deemed to have applied, on the effective date, for the license referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the new Worker Dispatching Act.

③A person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, holds the license referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the former Worker Dispatching Act and has applied for the license referred to in that paragraph for a place of business other than the places of business covered by that license is deemed to have filed, on the effective date, a notification under the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the new Worker Dispatching Act for the place of business covered by that application.

A license certificate that, at the time this Act comes into effect, a person has been issued under the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) of the former Worker Dispatching Act is deemed to be a license certificate issued under the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) of the new Worker Dispatching Act.

With regard to the revocation of a license, an order for the discontinuance of business, or an order for the suspension of business against a person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is engaged in worker dispatching services having obtained a license or having submitted a written notification under the provisions of the former Worker Dispatching Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern with respect to grounds that arose before this Act comes into effect.

In addition to what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.

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 provisions of Articles 7 and 10 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.