I hereby give My sanction, with the advice of the Privy Council, to the Law for Provisional Exceptions as to the Register of Electors of Members of the House of Representatives etc., for which the concurrence of the Imperial Diet has been obtained, and cause the same to promulgated.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-seventh day of the ninth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (September 27, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi
Art.1. The register of electors to be prepared as of 15 September 1946 in accordance with the provisions of Art.12, Para.1 of the Election Law of the Members of the House of Representatives, shall be prepared as of the date to be specified by ordinance, notwithstanding the provisions prescribed in the abovementioned Paragraph.
The register of electors to be prepared in accordance with the preceding paragraph shall have effect until the next register of electors shall become conclusive.
The date and the period or time concerning the preparation, public inspection or decision in respect to objection against and the conclusion of the register of electors to be prepared in accordance with the provisions of Par.1 shall be provided by ordinance.
Art.2. With regard to the register of electors to be prepared in accordance with the provisions of Par.1 of the preceding Article and the register of electors to take the place of, or to be based on, the above-mentioned register, the affairs of the Mayor of a city, the headman of a ward, town or village and other persons who are responsible for preparing the register (excluding any person who corresponds in status to the headman of a town or village where the Law for the Organization of Towns and Villages is not in force yet) in respect to the preparation, the public inspection and other matters of the register shall be carried out by the committee for the administration of election of members of a city, ward, town or viilage assembly (the ward committee for the administration of election of members of a city assembly in case of a city prescribed in Art.6 and Art.82, Par.1 of the Law for the Organization of Cities;the same shall apply hereinafter) and other committees for the administration of election.
Art.3. The provisions of Art.1 shall be applied mutatis mutandis to the register of electors to be prepared as of 15 September 1946 in accordance with the provisions prescribed in Art.17, Par.1 or Art.148, Par.2 of the Law for the Organization of Tokyo Metropolis, Art.21, Par.1 of the Law for the Organization of Cities, Art.18, Par.1 of the Law for the Organization of Towns and Villages, etc.
Art.4. The committee for the administration of election of members of a city, ward, town or village assembly and other committees for the administration of election may issue orders to electors to fill informations of relevant matters in cases the necessity exists in preparing the register of electors.
Supplementary Provisions:
The present Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
The register of electors which is still in force in case of the enforcement of the present Law shall cease to have effect when the register of electors to be prepared in accordance with the provisions prescribed in Arts.1 and 3 shall become conclusive.
The provisions cocerning the committee for the administration of election of members of a city, ward, town or village assembly (including other committee for the administration of election) prescribed in the Law of Partial. Amendment concerning Organization of Tokyo Metropolis of 1946, the Law of partial amendment concerning the Organization of Cities of the same year and the Law of Partial Amendment concerning the Organization for Town and Villages of the same year shall be regarded, in the application of the present Law, as valid simultaneously or the day the present law come into force.
In respect to the register of electors to be prepared in accordance with the provisions of Art.1, Par.1 and the register of electors to be substituted for it, the Imperial Ordinance No.537 of 1945 (concerning the Exceptions to Art.12 of the Election Law of Members of the House of Representatives) shall not be applied.
Any person who has not kept his residence within the area of enforcement of the Election Law of Members of the House of Representatives and has ot been registered in the register of election on account of his not having kept his residence for more than six consecutive months within the boundary of the same city, ward, town or other corresponding body, although he was keeping his residence within the area of enforcement of the abovementioned Law on the date of completion of the register of electors to be prepared in accordance with the provisions of Art.1, par.1 of the Law No.84 of 1938 (the Law for the Right to Elect and the Right to be Elected, etc. of those who are called up for the present War) to be a person who has not been registered in the register of electors of members of the House of Representatives on account of his not keeping his residence within the area of enforcement of the Election Law of Members of the House of Representatives but has come to establish his residence within the area of enforcement of the above-mentioned Law of Election.
In Art.1, Par.1 of the Law No.84 of 1939, "based upon the personal application" shall be added, next to,"in cases where there are persons who come under the following prescriptions.