I hereby give My Sanction, with the advice of the Privy Council, to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments to the Kindergarten Ordinance and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-first day of the sixth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (June 21, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Education TANAKA Kotaro
Imperial Ordinance No. 333
The following amendments are made to the Kindergarten Ordinance:
In Art. 7, "Nurses" shall read "Personnel who take charge of nursing infants."
Art. 9. Kindergarten personnel who take charge of nursing infants must be female with the certificate of kindergarten teacher.
In Art. 10, "The certificate of Nurse" shall read "The certificate of kindergarten teacher," and "Nurses" shall read "Kindergarten personnel mentioned in the above article."
In Para. 1, Art. 11, "The certificate of nurse" shall read "The certificate of kindergarten teacher," and "Nurse's license examination" shall read "License examination of kindergarten personnel who take charge of nursing infants." In Para. 2, ibid., "Nurse's license examination," shall read "The examination mentioned above." In Para. 3 and 4, ibid., "Nurse" shall read "Para. 1."
In Para. 3, ibid., "Hokkaido local expenditure or prefectures respectively in Hokkaido or prefectures" shall read "Tokyo Metropolis, Hokkaido local expenditure or prefectures respectively in Tokyo Metropolis, Hokkaido or prefectures."
Article 12 and Article 12-(bis)2 shall be deleted.
In Articl 12(bis)3, "Appointment and dismissal, duties and" shall be deleted and the same article shall be made Article 12 and Article 12-(bis)4 made Article 12-(bis)2. Article 12-(bis)3. In case any of private kindergarten personnel should act against the duties or neglect the duties or in case he should impair the honor officially or privately, the prefectural Governor shall suspend his service.
Article 12-(bis)5 shall be deleted.
Of Article 12-(bis)6, "Dismissal or" shall be deleted; "Suspension of the service or the certificate of nurse" shall read "suspension of the service or the certificate of kindergarten teacher," and the same article shall be made Article 12-(bis)4.
Supplementary Provisions:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
The certificate of nurse which had been given prior to the enforcement of the present Ordinance shall be regarded as the same with the certificate of kindergarten teacher which is given according to the revised provision of Para. 1, Art. 11.