This Law shall be enforced from April 1, 2001; provided that the provisions of the following article shall be enforced from March 1, 2001, and the provisions of Supplemental Article 4 shall be enforced from the date of enforcement of the Law of Revision to Commercial Code (Law No. 91of 2000)

Prior to the enforcement of this Law, designation pursuant to the provisions of Article 17, paragraph 1 and necessary procedures and other actions in connection therewith may be performed pursuant to the precedents of Article 18 through Article 20, Article 21, paragraph 1, and Article 25, paragraph 1 and paragraph 2.

When five years have passed since the enforcement of this Law, the government shall examine the status of enforcement hereof and take necessary measures based on the results of such examination.

A part of the Law Concerning the Arrangement of Related Laws That Accompany the Enforcement of Laws That Revise Parts of the Commercial Code, etc. shall be revised as follows.

The following article shall be added following Article 150:

A part of the Law Concerning Electronic Signatures and Certification Services (Law No.102 of 2000) shall be revised as follows.

Throughout the text of Article 8, the phrase "or merger" shall be changed to , "merger or partition (limited to one that would cause succession of the whole of the business that performs service associated with such accreditation)"; the phrase "or the organization that continues in existence after the merger" shall be changed to "the organization that continues in existence after the merger"; and the phrase "or the organization that succeeds to the whole of such business through partition" shall be added after the phrase "the organization established by the merger".