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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-805" title_number="9" title_name="Secured Transactions" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Transition Provisions for 2012 Amendments">
  <text>A security interest that is an unperfected security interest immediately before the Act takes effect becomes a perfected security interest:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Without further action, when the Act takes effect if the applicable requirements for perfection under this title, as amended by the Act, are satisfied before or at that time; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>When the applicable requirements for perfection are satisfied if the requirements are satisfied after that time.</text>
  </level>
</section>
