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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="ImperialOrder" Num="237" PromulgateDay="25" PromulgateMonth="4" Year="21">
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    <PromulgateStatement>We hereby give our sanction to the "Certain Amendments to the Education Ministry Organization Ordinance" and cause it to be promulgated,</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed : Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>This twenty-fourth day of the fourth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (24 April, 1946)</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned:</MinisterialTitle>
      <MinisterialTitle>Baron</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle/>
      <Name>Yoshishige Abe Minister of Education</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Imperial Ordinance No. 237</LawNum>
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        <ArticleTitle>Article 1.</ArticleTitle>
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            <Sentence>The following amendment is made to the Education Ministry Organization Ordinance :</Sentence>
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              <Sentence>In Article 9, "<QuoteStruct>
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                          <Sentence>101 full-time secretaries of the Education Ministry of the second grade;</Sentence>
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                        <Column Num="1">
                          <Sentence>189 full-time secretaries of the Education Ministry of the third grade</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>105 full-time secretaries of the Education Ministry of the second grade;</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>196 full-time secretaries of the Education Ministry of the third grade</Sentence>
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                </QuoteStruct>".</Sentence>
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        <ArticleTitle>Article 2.</ArticleTitle>
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            <Sentence>In the ordinance for the Employment of the Extra officials in the Education Ministry of the following amendment is made:</Sentence>
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              <Sentence>In paragraph 1,Article 1,"<QuoteStruct>
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                          <Sentence>16 full-time technicians of the Education Ministry of</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>the second grade;</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>42 full-time technicians of</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>the third grade</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>One full-time secretary of the Education Ministry of</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>the second grade,</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>2 full-time secretaries of the Education Ministries of</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>the third grade;</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>25 full-time technicians of the Education Ministry;</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>62 full-time technicians of</Sentence>
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                          <Sentence>the third grade</Sentence>
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                </QuoteStruct>".</Sentence>
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      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provisions:</SupplProvisionLabel>
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          <Sentence>The present ordinance will come into force as from the date of its promulgation.</Sentence>
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