1　The date of enforcement of this Law shall, within the period not exceeding three months reckoning from the day of its promulgation, be determined by Cabinet Order for each of the parts relating to the medium type surrounding-net fisheries, small type trawler fisheries and drag-net fisheries-by-boat in the Seto Inland Sea in its provisions.

2　Any license of surrounding-net fisheries (excluding those fisheries for which the license of the competent Minister is needed under the Ministerial Ordinance as prescribed in Article 65 paragraph 1 of the Fisheries Law) which has been granted by the governor of To, Do, Fu or prefecture based upon To, Do, Fu or prefectural regulations issued in accordance with the provision of Article 65 paragraph 1 of the same Law for vessels of not less than 5 gross tons and under 60 gross tons and is actually effective at the time of enforcement of the part relating to the medium type surrounding-net fisheries in the provisions of Article 66-(2) of the same Law shall be deemed to have been granted under the provisions of the same Article, for one year following its enforcement (with regard to the license whose validity expires before the lapse of such period, until the day of the expiration).

3　Any fisheries operated by means of bottom dragnet and by the fishing method determined by the competent Minister on board a ship equipped with a screw propeller of not less than 15 gross tons and not coming up to the gross tonnage determined by the competent Minister in the waters designated by the competent Minister shall be deemed to be small type trawler fisheries until March 31, 1954.

4　Any license of smaller trawler fisheries which has been granted by the governor of To, Do, Fu or prefecture in accordance with the provision of Article 26-(2) of the Regulations for Control of Smaller Trawler Fisheries (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Ordinance No.20 of 1934) for vessels of under 15 gross tons equipped with screw propellers and is actually effective at the time of enforcement of the part relating to the small type trawler fisheries in the provisions of Article 66-(2) of the Fisheries Law shall be deemed to have been granted under the provisions of the same Article, for one year following its enforcement (with regard to the license whose validity expires before the lapse of such period, until the day of the expiration).

5　With regard to the smaller trawler fisheries operated by vessels of under 15 gross tons, having actually the license from the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry under the provision of Article 1-(2) of the Regulations for Control of Smaller Trawler Fisheries at the time of enforcement of the part relating to the smaller type trawler fisheries in the provisions of Article 66-(2) of the Fisheries Law, the provision of Article 66-(2) paragraph 1 of the same Law shall not apply for one year following the enforcement of the part relating to the small type trawler fisheries in the provisions of the same Article.

6　Any license of drag-net fisheries-by-boat which has been granted by the governor of Fu or prefecture under the provisions of the Fu or prefectural regulations issued in accordance with the provision of Article 65 paragraph 1 of the Fisheries Law for vessels of not less than 5 gross tons equipped with screw propellers, having a part of the Seto Inland Sea as their operation area, and is actually effective at the time of enforcement of the part relating to the drag-net fisheries-by-boat in the Seto Inland Sea in the provisions of Article 66-(2) of the same Law shall be deemed to have been granted under the provisions of the same Article, for one year following its enforcement (with regard to the license whose validity expires before the lapse of such period, until the day of the expiration).