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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="ImperialOrder" Num="320" PromulgateDay="15" PromulgateMonth="6" Year="21">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby give My Sanction to the partial amendments of the Imperial Ordinance concerning Rank Distinction of "Shinnin" and Other Officials, and cause the same to be promulgated.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>This fourteenth day of the sixth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (June 14, 1946)</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned: Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Imperial Ordinance No. 320</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>Part of the Ordinance concerning the Rank Distinction of "Shinnin" and Other Officials shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>The following list shall precede "Ministers of State" section, "Cabinet" part, in the list of rank distinction of "Shinnin" and other officials.</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <TableRow>
              <TableColumn>
                <Sentence/>
              </TableColumn>
              <TableColumn>
                <Sentence>"Demobilization officials",</Sentence>
              </TableColumn>
              <TableColumn>
                <Sentence>"the same as left",</Sentence>
              </TableColumn>
              <TableColumn>
                <Sentence>"the same as left"</Sentence>
              </TableColumn>
            </TableRow>
            <TableRow>
              <TableColumn>
                <Sentence/>
              </TableColumn>
              <TableColumn>
                <Sentence/>
              </TableColumn>
              <TableColumn>
                <Sentence>"Demobilization technical official",</Sentence>
              </TableColumn>
              <TableColumn>
                <Sentence>"the same as left"</Sentence>
              </TableColumn>
            </TableRow>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>"1st Demobilization Ministry" and "2nd Demobilization Ministry" sections of the above list shall be deleted.</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>This ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
</Law>