(Effective Date)  This Cabinet Order comes into effect as of the date of promulgation.  (Effective Date)  (Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provision)  This Cabinet Order comes into effect as of the date of promulgation.  (Effective Date)  (Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provision)  (Effective Date)  Article 1 This Cabinet Order comes into effect as of the date of enforcement of  the Revised Act (November 25, 2014).  (1) This Cabinet Order comes into effect as of October 1, 2015; provided, however,  that the provisions of Article 2 that amend Article 4, paragraph (2), item (ii),  (a) and the proviso to item (iv) of the same paragraph of the Export Trade  Control Order and the provisions adding as follows next to row 35-3 of  Appended Table 2 of the same Order come into effect as of day on which the  Minamata Convention on Mercury comes into effect in Japan.  (2) Prior laws continue to govern the applicability of penal provisions to acts  committed prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order.  (1) This Cabinet Order comes into effect as of the date of promulgation.  (2) Prior laws continue to govern the applicability of penal provisions to acts  committed prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order.  (1) This Cabinet Order comes into effect as of January 7, 2017; provided, however,  that the provisions listed as follows come into effect as of the date specified in  Supplementary Provisions [Cabinet Order No. 172 of April 3, 2015]  Supplementary Provisions [Cabinet Order No. 284 of July 31, 2015]  Supplementary Provisions [Cabinet Order No. 189 of April 1, 2016]  Supplementary Provisions [Cabinet Order No. 266 of July 29, 2016]  Supplementary Provisions [Cabinet Order No. 346 of November 7, 2016]  48 