I hereby give Our sanction to the Ordinance concerning the Organization and Function of the Livestock Breeding Station and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor
This sixteenth day of the fifth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (16 May, 1946)
Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister
Sempachi Soejima Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
Imperial Ordinance No. 276
Article 1. The Livestock Breeding Station shall, under the administration of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, carry out the business pertaining to:
(a) The feeding, management, improvement and breeding of domestic animals (poultry and honey bees inclusive).
(b) The distribution of breeding stocks and hatching eggs, loaning of breeding stocks, and covering service.
(c) The instruction of the technique on animal industry.
(d) The practical studies on farm management combined with animal raising.
(e) The instruction of private business of covering service.
(f) The registration of breeding stocks.
(g) The egg laying test of chickens.
Article 2. The officers of the Livestock Breeding Station in the aggregate shall be:
(b) Technical officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
(full time) 41 persons second rank
(c) Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
(full time) 34 persons third rank
Article 3. The director shall be appointed from among second rank
technical officials and shall be in charge of the general affairs of the Livestock Breeding Station under the supervision of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.
Article 4. The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry may establish a branch station at any locality as may be necessary for taking a part of the affairs of the Livestock Breeding Station.
Article 5. The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry shall decide the names and locations of the Livestock Breeding Station and its branch, and also districts of jurisdiction of the Livestock Breeding Station.
Supplementary Provisions:
Article 6. This Imperial Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
Article 7. The Imperial Ordinances concerning the Organizations and Functions of Stock Farm, Sheep Farm, Horse Breeding Farm, Horce Rearing Farm and Stallion Depot shall be abolished.
Article 8. The Government Organization of the Imperial Zootechnical Experiment Station shall be partially amended as follows:
Art. 1. The Imperial Zootechnical Experiment Station shall, under the administration of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, carry out the business pertaining to:
(a) The experiments and investigations on domestic animals (poultry and honey bees inclusive).
(b) The experiments and investigations on animal products.
(c) The experiments and investigations on utilization of draft animals.
(d) The experiments and investigations on feeds.
(e) The experiments and investigations on stable manure.
(f) The analysis and judgment of the materials relating to animal industry.
The Imperial Zootechnical Experiment Station may, in cases where any experiment or investigation relating to animal industry is entrusted by the public at large, comply with the said request or let the installation to be utilized for that purpose, so far as no hindrance shall occure in the execution of business specified in the preceding paragraph.
Art. 4. The director of the Imperial Zootechnical Experiment Station may, in cases where it appears necessary to do so relating to the business specified in Art. 1, Para. 1, Item 1 to 5 inclusive, request a cooperation of the Livestock Breeding Station in respect of experiments or investigations.
Article 9. A part of the Imperial Ordinance No. 104, 1906, shall be amended as follows:
"Stallion Depot, Horse Breeding Farm, Bull Farm and" is canceled.
Article 10. A part of the Imperial Ordinance No. 317, 1906, shall be amended as follows:
"Breeding Cattle Farm" shall read Livestock Breeding Station".
Article 11. A part of the Imperial Ordinance No. 746, 1939, shall be amended as follows:
"Livestock Farm" shall read "Livestock Breeding Station".