All persons licensed or otherwise authorized under the provisions of article 4 ofchapter 16 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, on the effective date of this act are licensed to make supervised loans under sections 1 through 135 of this act*, pursuant to the part on supervised lenders (part 3) of the article on finance charges and related provisions (article 2), and all provisions of that part apply to the persons so previously licensed or authorized. The administrator may, but is not required to, deliver evidence of licensing to the persons so previously licensed or authorized.