Supplementary Provisions

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

①An application for permission under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Old Japan-Korea Special Act made before this Act comes into effect is deemed to be an application for permission under Article 4.

②With respect to a child of a person who has lost Japanese nationality under the Treaty of Peace with Japan who, within 60 days before this Act comes into effect, has come to stay in Japan due to birth or other reasons without going through the procedures for landing specified in Chapter III of the Old Immigration Control Act, the provisions of Article 4 and the provisions of Article 22-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as read in accordance with Article 8 apply by deeming that the birth or other reason occurred on the date this Act comes into effect.

③An application made, before this Act comes into effect, pursuant to the provisions of Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Old Immigration Control Act by a person who has lost Japanese nationality under the Treaty of Peace with Japan or a child of a person who has lost Japanese nationality under the Treaty of Peace with Japan (excluding a person listed in Article 3, item (ii)) is deemed to be an application for permission under Article 5.

④An application made, before this Act comes into effect, by a child of a person who has lost Japanese nationality under the Treaty of Peace with Japan for the acquisition of the status of permanent residence or the status of residence of a child of a person who has lost Japanese nationality under the Treaty of Peace with Japan pursuant to the provisions of Article 22-2, paragraph (2) of the Old Immigration Control Act, or an application pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (9) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Old Immigration Control Act, is deemed to be an application for permission under Article 5 made by a child of a person who has lost Japanese nationality under the Treaty of Peace with Japan who stays in Japan by virtue of a status of residence set out in the left-hand column of Appended Table II of the Immigration Control Act (excluding the status of permanent residence).

With respect to a person listed in Article 3, item (i), (b) who has come to fall under any of the items of Article 22, paragraph (1) by an act committed before the Old Japan-Korea Special Act came into effect, that person may not be compelled to depart from Japan on the grounds of that act.

A person who was staying in Japan having been granted permission for permanent residence under the Old Japan-Korea Special Act, who departed from Japan without obtaining the permission under Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act, and who, on the date of enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Alien Registration Act (Act No. 134 of 1999), was staying in Japan by virtue of a status of residence in the left-hand column of Appended Table II of the Immigration Control Act, is deemed to be a special permanent resident as provided for in this Act when, on or after that date, the person has come to stay in Japan by virtue of the status of permanent residence in that column.