(1) Attendance by the person concerned at the main hearing and the proceedings in absentia is in accordance with the law applicable at the time when the first summons to the main hearing is sent to the person concerned.
(2) The admissibility and admission of legal remedies are effected in accordance with the law applicable at the time when a judgment is delivered or a ruling is received by the registry.
(2a) Section 108 (1) sentence 2 is to continue to be applied in its version as applicable up to and including 31 December 2025 if the decision to be challenged is received by the registry up to and including 31 December 2025.
(3) Resumption of the proceedings is effected in accordance with the law applicable at the time when an application is received by the court.
(4) In the proceedings of the administrative authority, fees and expenses are levied in accordance with the law applicable at the time when the regulatory fining notice was issued.
(5) Section 49c does not apply to files existing on 1 October 2002 until 1 October 2003.
(6) If the order of confiscation of the value of the proceeds of the offence relating to an act that is subject to a regulatory fine committed prior to 1 July 2017 is ruled on after this date, section 29a applies in the version of the Act Reforming the Siphoning off of Assets under Criminal Law (Gesetz zur Reform der strafrechtlichen Vermögensabschöpfung) of 13 April 2017 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 872). Section 29a applies in the version applicable until 1 July 2017 in proceedings in which a ruling has already been handed down regarding the forfeiture of the replacement value prior to 1 July 2017.