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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="ImperialOrder" Num="344" PromulgateDay="1" PromulgateMonth="7" Year="21">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments made to the General Rules of the Personnel of Government Offices and others and cause the same to be promulgated.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>The twenty-ninth day of the sixth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (June 29, 1946)</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned: Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Imperial Ordinance No. 344</LawNum>
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    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Article Num="1">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 1.</ArticleTitle>
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          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>Part of the General Rules of the Personnel of Government Offices shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>Paragraph 1, in Article 1, "Secretary of Transportation Ministry, Technical Official of Transportation Ministry, Educational Official of Transportation Ministry in the Transportation Ministry", shall read,<QuoteStruct>
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                    <ListSentence>
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                      </Column>
                      <Column Num="2">
                        <Sentence>"Secretary of Transportation Ministry,</Sentence>
                      </Column>
                      <Column Num="3">
                        <Sentence>Technical Official of Transportation Ministry,</Sentence>
                      </Column>
                      <Column Num="4">
                        <Sentence>Educational Official of Transportation Ministry in the Transportation Ministry;</Sentence>
                      </Column>
                    </ListSentence>
                  </List>
                  <List>
                    <ListSentence>
                      <Column Num="1">
                        <Sentence/>
                      </Column>
                      <Column Num="2">
                        <Sentence>Secretary of Communications Ministry,</Sentence>
                      </Column>
                      <Column Num="3">
                        <Sentence>Technical Official of Communications Ministry,</Sentence>
                      </Column>
                      <Column Num="4">
                        <Sentence>Educational Official of Communications Ministry in the Communications Ministry</Sentence>
                      </Column>
                    </ListSentence>
                  </List>
                </QuoteStruct>."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="2">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 2.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
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          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>Part of the Regulations concerning Shinnin and other Official grades shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In the section of the Cabinet on the annexed table showing the Shinnin and other official grades, the item of the President of the Board of Communications, that of the Vice-President of the Board of Communications, that of the private Secretary to the President of the Board of Communications, that of the Secretary of Communications Ministry, that of the Technical Official of Communications Ministry, that of the Educational Official of Communications Ministry and that of the Specified Post-Master shall be deleted, and the following shall be added next to the section of the Ministry of Transportation on that table.</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
            <NewProvision>
              <TableRow>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence>Ministry of Communications</Sentence>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence>Minister of Communications</Sentence>
                </TableColumn>
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                </TableColumn>
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                </TableColumn>
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              </TableRow>
              <TableRow>
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                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
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                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence>Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Communications</Sentence>
                </TableColumn>
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                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
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                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
              </TableRow>
              <TableRow>
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                </TableColumn>
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                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence>Vice-Minister of Communications</Sentence>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
              </TableRow>
              <TableRow>
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                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence>Councillor of the Ministry of Communications</Sentence>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
              </TableRow>
              <TableRow>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence>Secretary of Communications Ministry</Sentence>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
              </TableRow>
              <TableRow>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
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                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
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                </TableColumn>
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                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
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                </TableColumn>
              </TableRow>
              <TableRow>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence>Technical Official of Communications Ministry</Sentence>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
              </TableRow>
              <TableRow>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence>Educational Official of Communications Ministry</Sentence>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
              </TableRow>
              <TableRow>
                <TableColumn>
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                </TableColumn>
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                </TableColumn>
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                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence/>
                </TableColumn>
                <TableColumn>
                  <Sentence>Private Secretary to the Minister of Communications ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Specified Post-master</Sentence>
                </TableColumn>
              </TableRow>
            </NewProvision>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="3">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 3.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The General Rules of the Personnel of the Communications Offices attached to the Cabinet shall be abolished.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </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>