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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="ImperialOrder" Num="257" PromulgateDay="2" PromulgateMonth="5" Year="21">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>We hereby give Our sanction to the Ordinance concerning the amendments of the Food Control Law Enforcement Ordinance and cause the same to be promulgated.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>This first day of the Fifth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (1 May, 1946)</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned:</MinisterialTitle>
      <MinisterialTitle>Baron</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle/>
      <Name>Senpachi Soejima Minister of Agriculture and Forestry</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Imperial Ordinance No. 257</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The following amendments are made to the Food Control Law Enforcement Ordinance.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 1 the following item is to be added.</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <Item Num="8">
              <ItemTitle>8.</ItemTitle>
              <ItemSentence>
                <Sentence>Canned foods which has been imported since august 15th 1945, and other foods which are designated by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.</Sentence>
              </ItemSentence>
            </Item>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <NewProvision>
            <Article Num="10_6">
              <ArticleTitle>Article 10-6</ArticleTitle>
              <Paragraph Num="1">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>No person shall sell or huy the foods which has been imported since August 15th 1945 except in such cases as enumerated helow.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
                <Item Num="1">
                  <ItemTitle>1.</ItemTitle>
                  <ItemSentence>
                    <Sentence>In case where the Prefectural Food Corporation or any person designated by the prefectural governor sells the food according to the direction of the prefectural governor.</Sentence>
                  </ItemSentence>
                </Item>
                <Item Num="2">
                  <ItemTitle>2.</ItemTitle>
                  <ItemSentence>
                    <Sentence>In case where any person huys the food from the Prefectural Food Corporation or from any person designated by the prefectural governor.</Sentence>
                  </ItemSentence>
                </Item>
              </Paragraph>
            </Article>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>This Imperial Ordinance shall come into forces from the day of its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
</Law>