This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 127 of the Real Property Registration Act as amended (hereinafter referred to as "the new Act") and Article 4, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date of enforcement of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information Held by Administrative Organs (April 1, 2005) or the date of enforcement of this Act, whichever comes later.

①Unless otherwise provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions of the new Act (excluding the penal provisions) also apply to any matters that have arisen prior to the enforcement of this Act; provided, however, that this does not preclude the effect that has arisen under the provisions of the Real Property Registration Act prior to the amendment (hereinafter referred to as "the former Act").

②With regard to the application of the new Act, a disposition, procedure or other act made prior to the enforcement of this Act pursuant to the provisions of the former Act is deemed to have been made under the corresponding provisions of the new Act, unless otherwise provided for in these Supplementary Provisions.

①The provisions of Article 2, items (v) and (ix), Article 12, Article 51, paragraphs (5) and (6) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 53, paragraph (2)) and Article 119 of the new Act apply to the affairs designated by the Minister of Justice for each registry office as the affairs to be handled by means of an electronic data processing system (meaning an electronic data processing system referred to in Article 151-2, paragraph (1) of the former Act; the same applies in paragraph (3)), as from the date of the designation.

②The designation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be made by public notice.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the affairs that are to be handled by means of an electronic data processing system at a registry office which is subject to the designation under Article 151-2, paragraph (1) of the former Act at the time of the enforcement of this Act are deemed to have been designated under the provisions of paragraph (1) as of the date of enforcement of this Act.

④Until the designation under the provisions of paragraph (1) is made, with regard to the affairs that have not been designated under the provisions of the same paragraph, the provisions of Articles 14 through 16-2, Article 21, paragraph (1) (limited to the part concerning the issuance of a transcript or extract of a register and the inspection of a register) and paragraph (3), and Article 24-2, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the former Act remain in force.

⑤With regard to the application of the new Act to the affairs referred to in the preceding paragraph until the designation under the provisions of paragraph (1) is made, the term "registration record" in the main provisions of the new Act (excluding Article 2, item (vi), Article 15 and Article 25, item (ii) of the new Act) is deemed to be replaced with "register"; the phrase "as a registration record" in Article 2, item (vi) and Article 25, item (ii) of the new Act is deemed to be replaced with "in a register"; the term "rights section" in Article 2, items (viii) and (xi) of the new Act is deemed to be replaced with "details section"; the phrase "registers and registration records" in Article 15 of the new Act is deemed to be replaced with "registers"; and the term "registers" in Article 122 is deemed to be replaced with "registers (including closed registers referred to in Article 24-2, paragraph (1) of the former Act which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions)".

⑥The provisions of Article 119, paragraph (4) of the new Act apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of fees referred to in Article 21, paragraph (1) of the former Act which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-2, paragraph (3) of the former Act which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4)). In this case, the phrase "paragraphs (1) and (2)" in Article 119, paragraph (4) of the new Act is to be deemed to be replaced with "Article 21, paragraph (1) of the former Act which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-2, paragraph (3) of the former Act which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions)".

⑦The provisions of Article 119, paragraph (5) of the new Act do not apply to the affairs that have not been designated under the provisions of paragraph (1) (including those that are deemed to have been designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3)) at the registry office that has jurisdiction over the location of the real property pertaining to the request referred to in the same paragraph.

①With regard to a closed register pertaining to the affairs that have been designated under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including those that are deemed to have been designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article) which is kept at the registry office at the time when the designation is made, the provisions of Article 24-2, paragraph (3) of the former Act remain in force.

②The provisions of Article 119, paragraph (4) of the new Act apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of fees referred to in Article 21, paragraph (1) of the former Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-2, paragraph (3) of the former Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "paragraphs (1) and (2)" in Article 119, paragraph (4) of the new Act is to be deemed to be replaced with "Article 21, paragraph (1) of the former Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-2, paragraph (3) of the former Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".

③The provisions of the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs do not apply to a closed register referred to in paragraph (1) (including annexed documents thereof; the same applies in the following paragraph).

④The provisions of Chapter V, Section 4 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information do not apply to the retained personal information (meaning retained personal information prescribed in Article 60, paragraph (1) of the same Act) which is recorded in a closed register referred to in paragraph (1).

With regard to the application of the Civil Code, the Civil Enforcement Act (Act No. 4 of 1979) and other laws and regulations, a transcript or extract of a register prescribed in Article 21, paragraph (1) of the former Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-2, paragraph (3) of the former Act) that has been issued prior to the enforcement of this Act is deemed to be a certificate of registered matters. The same applies to a transcript or extract of a register prescribed in Article 21, paragraph (1) of the former Act which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-2, paragraph (3) of the former Act which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions) or in Article 21, paragraph (1) of the former Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Article 24-2, paragraph (3) of the former Act which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.

①The provisions of Article 18, item (i) of the new Act apply to the registration procedures designated by the Minister of Justice for each registry office as the registration procedures in which an application for registration may be filed by the method prescribed in the same item, as from the date of the designation.

②The designation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be made by public notice.

In the registration procedures designated under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if, after the designation under the provisions of the same paragraph is made, an application for registration is filed by submitting a registration certificate returned or issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1) or Article 61 of the former Act (including a registration certificate returned or issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1) or Article 61 of the former Act in response to an application for registration that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of the following Article) or a registration certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 21 or Article 117, paragraph (2) of the new Act as applied by replacing the relevant terms and phrases pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, the provisions of the main clause of Article 22 of the new Act are applied by deeming that information for registration identification has been provided.

With regard to an application for registration filed prior to the enforcement of this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the security deposit prescribed in Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. to Improve Security Interests and the Civil Enforcement System (Act No. 134 of 2003), the provisions then in force continue to govern. In this case, the phrase "Article 132, paragraph (1) of the Real Property Registration Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2" in that Article is to be deemed to be replaced with "Article 81, item (iv) of the Real Property Registration Act (Act No. 123 of 2004)".

If the date of enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Administrative Case Litigation Act (Act No. 84 of 2004) comes after the date of enforcement of this Act, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 158 of the new Act until the day preceding the date of enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Administrative Case Litigation Act, the phrase "through paragraph (7)" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "through paragraph (6)".

①With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②The provisions of Article 51, paragraphs (1) and (4) and Article 58, paragraphs (6) and (7) of the new Act also apply in the case where, prior to the enforcement of this Act, grounds for filing an application for the registration prescribed in those provisions have arisen with regard to a building for which there is a registration to the effect that it is a common element or that it is a common element of a housing complex. In this case, the periods prescribed in those provisions (with regard to the periods prescribed in Article 51, paragraph (4) or Article 58, paragraph (7) of the new Act, excluding the case where ownership is acquired on or after the date of enforcement of this Act) are counted from the date of enforcement of this Act.

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, the necessary transitional measures concerning the procedure for registration upon the amendment of the Real Property Registration Act by this Act are specified by Ministry of Justice Order.