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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="ImperialOrder" Num="252" PromulgateDay="1" PromulgateMonth="5" Year="21">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>We sanction the Ordinance concerning the Amendment to the Ordinance of Seamen Employment Agency and hereby promulgate it.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>This thirties day of the fourth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (30 April, 1946)</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned:</MinisterialTitle>
      <MinisterialTitle>Baron</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle/>
      <Name>Giichi Murakami Minister of Transportation</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Imperial Ordinance No. 252</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Ordiance of Seamen Employment Agency is hereby amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <NewProvision>
            <Article Num="3">
              <ArticleTitle>Article 3,</ArticleTitle>
              <Paragraph Num="1">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>The following official positions shall be set in the seamen employment Agency:</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
                <List>
                  <ListSentence>
                    <Sentence>Director</Sentence>
                  </ListSentence>
                </List>
                <List>
                  <ListSentence>
                    <Sentence>Transportation Ministry Secretary</Sentence>
                  </ListSentence>
                  <Sublist1>
                    <Sublist1Sentence>
                      <Column Num="1">
                        <Sentence>3 Second class-full time</Sentence>
                      </Column>
                      <Column Num="2">
                        <Sentence/>
                      </Column>
                    </Sublist1Sentence>
                  </Sublist1>
                  <Sublist1>
                    <Sublist1Sentence>
                      <Column Num="1">
                        <Sentence>17 Third class-full time</Sentence>
                      </Column>
                      <Column Num="2">
                        <Sentence/>
                      </Column>
                    </Sublist1Sentence>
                  </Sublist1>
                </List>
              </Paragraph>
              <Paragraph Num="2">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>The directorship is to be assigned to a second or third class secretary of the Transportation Ministry.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
            </Article>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>Article 5 shall be eliminated and Article 6 changed for Article 5.</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
</Law>