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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="ImperialOrder" Num="324" PromulgateDay="17" PromulgateMonth="6" Year="21">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby give My Sanction to the amendments to a part of the Ordinance regarding the Regulations governing the official organization of the Ministry of Finance and cause the same to be promulgated.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>This fifteenth day of the sixth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (June 15, 1946).</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned: Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Finance</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>ISHIBASHI Tanzan</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Imperial Ordinance No. 324</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Article Num="1">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 1.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>A part of the Ordinance regarding the Regulations governing the official organization of the Minstry of Finance shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 9, Paragraph 1, regarding the number of secretaries of the Ministry of Finance, "43 full-time" shall read "44 full-time"; "225 full-time" to "232 full-time"; and in the same Article, regarding the number of technical officials of the Ministry of Finance, "10 full-time" shall read "13 full-time."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="2">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 2.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>A part of the Ordinance regarding the appointment of the temporary personnel of the Ministry of Finance shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 1, regarding the number of secretaries in the Ministry of Finance, "66 full-time" shall read "77 full-time"; "200 full-time" to "230 full-time"; and in the same Article, regarding the number of technical officials of the Ministry of Finance, "6 full-time" shall be amended as "7 full-time."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 2, regarding the number of secretaries in the Ministry of Finance, "768 full-time" shall read "792 full-time."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
    </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>