Supplementary Provisions

This Act comes into effect on the date on which the Postal Service Privatization Act comes into effect; provided, however, that the provisions in Article 62 amending the heading of Article 84-5 of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation and adding one paragraph to that Article, the provisions in Article 124 amending Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on the Arrangement of Relevant Acts for the Improvement of Securities Markets Through Reform of the Securities Settlement System and Other Systems, renumbering Article 85 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act as Article 86 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, moving Articles 82 through 84 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act down by one Article each, and adding one Article after Article 81 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and the provisions of Articles 30, 31, and 34, Article 60, paragraph (12), Article 66, paragraph (1), Article 67, and Article 93, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Postal Service Privatization Act come into effect.

①Among service under the provisions of the second sentence of Article 105 of the Code of Civil Procedure prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 105 (referred to as the "Former Act" in the following paragraph), service effected by a person engaged in postal services at a post office before this Act comes into effect is, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 104, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the Code of Civil Procedure as amended by the provisions of Article 105 (referred to as the "New Act" in that paragraph), deemed to be service effected at a business office of Japan Post Service Co., Ltd. (including a business office of a person entrusted by Japan Post Service Co., Ltd. with the work of that service; the same applies in the following paragraph).

②Service under the provisions of the second sentence of Article 106, paragraph (1) of the Former Act effected by a person engaged in postal services at a post office before this Act comes into effect is, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 104, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the New Act, deemed to be service under the provisions of the second sentence of Article 106, paragraph (1) of the New Act effected by a person engaged in postal services at a business office of Japan Post Service Co., Ltd.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to conduct engaged in before this Act comes into effect, to conduct engaged in after this Act comes into effect in the case where the provisions then in force are to remain applicable pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, to conduct engaged in before the lapse of the provisions of Article 38-8 of the former Postal Money Order Act (limited to the parts pertaining to items (ii) and (iii)) that are to remain in force after this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, to conduct engaged in before the lapse of the provisions of Article 70 of the former Postal Transfer Act (limited to the parts pertaining to items (ii) and (iii)) that are to remain in force after this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, to conduct engaged in before the lapse of the provisions of Article 8 of the former Act on Entrustment of Donations out of Postal Transfer Deposits (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii)) that are to remain in force after this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of Article 27, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, to conduct engaged in before the lapse of the provisions of Article 70 of the former Corporation Act (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii)) that are to remain in force after this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of Article 39, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, to conduct engaged in before the lapse of the provisions of Articles 71 and 72 of the former Corporation Act (limited to the part pertaining to item (xv)) that are to remain in force after this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of Article 42, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, and to conduct engaged in before the specified date pertaining to the postal savings bank prescribed in Article 104 of the Postal Service Privatization Act in the case where the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions apply, the provisions then in force continue to govern.