I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning partial amendments to be made to the Price Control Ordinance issued in accordance with the Imperial Ordinance No. 542 of 1945 concerning the Orders to be issued in consequence of the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This tenth day of the eighth of the twenty-first year of Showa (August 10, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro
Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Imperial Ordinance No. 382
A part of the Price Control Ordinance shall be amended as follows:
1. In Art. 3, Par. 1, "Cabinet ordinance" shall be put instead of "Ordinance", and the "Director General of the Price Board" instead of "the competent Minister", and in Par. 2, "Prime Minister" instead of "the competent Minister".
2. In Art, 4 and 5, "Cabinet ordinance" shall be put instead of "Ordinance", and the "Director General of the Price Board" instead of "the competent Minister".
3. In Art. 7, Par. 2, the "Director General of the Price Board" shall be put instead of "the competent Minister", and in Art. 7, Par. 3, "Cabinet ordinance" shall be put instead of "Ordinance".
4. In Arts. 15 to 17 inclusive, "Prime Minister" shall be put instead of the "competent Minister".
5. In Arts. 18 to 20, inclusive, "Prime Minister" shall be put instead of "the competent Minister", and "Cabinet ordinance" instead of "ordinance".
6. In Art. 21, "Prime Minister" shall be put instead of "the competent Minister".
7. In Art. 22, "surplus in Special Cooperation Tax Act" shall be inserted next to "income in cooperation Tax Act".
8. Art. 24, Par. 1 shall hereby be amended as follows:
"Price Stabilization Committee shall be instituted for making response to the government inquiry about important matters of Price".
9. In Art. 30, "Cabinet ordinance" shall be put instead of "Ordinance".
10. Art. 31 shall be amended as follows: Prime Minister is authorized, in accordance with regulations to be provided by him, to cause either the Directors of Local Price Beauraus or Prefectural Governor (in Tokyo, the Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police Board is included) to fulfil a part of the functions assigned to the Prime Minister or the Director-General of the Price Board as stipulated in the present Ordinance.
11. Article 32 shall be abrogated.
Supplementary provisions
This Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
The decision, order, permission, approval and other actions to be made concerning prices and the like in accordance with "other ordinance" prescribed in Art. 7, of the Price Control Ordinance shall be made by the Director-General of the Price Board as long as the Price Control Ordinance is effective, regardless of the provisions of the ordinances concerned. In case, however, specific provisions are made by Cabinet ordinance, they shall be applied.
Prime Minister is authorized in accordance with regulations to be provided by him, to cause either the prefectural governor (in Tokyo, the Superintendent General of the Metropolitan police Board is included) or the head of the Local Government to fulfil a part of the functions assigned to the Director General of the Price Board as stipulated in the preceding paragraph.
In the Imperial Ordinance No. 268, (1944), the following revisions shall be made:
In Art. 2, No. 88, "Article 4 of the Price Control Ordinance" shall be put instead of "Article 7 of the Prices and the like Control Ordinance", and the "controlled amount" instead of the "designated price".