I hereby give My Sanction to the Regulations governing the Organization of the Telecommunication Committee and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This nineteenth day of the tenth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (October 19, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Communications HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi
Imperial Ordinance No. 485
Organization of the Telecommunication Committee
Article 1. The Telecommunication Committee shall be subject to the superintendence of the Minister of Communications, and in compliance with the said Minister's inquiry, shall investigate and consider the matters pertaining to the operation of various telecommunication services, and coordination and execution of plans of construction and maintenance of telecommunication facilities.
The said committee may, besides matters prescribed in the preceding paragraph, make suggestion as to demands and priorities for telecommunication equipments to ministers concerned.
Article 2. The committee shall be composed of one chairman and members not more than ten persons.
The committee may, if necessary, have temporary members to investigate and consider special matters.
Article 3. Minister of Communications shall be the chairman.
The members and the temporary members shall be appointed by the Cabinet from among government officials and learned and experienced persons, in accordance with the recommendation of the Minister of Communications.
Article 4. The chairman shall preside over the committee's business.
In case any obstacle happens to the chairman, a member designated by the Minister of Communications shall perform the function of the chairman.
Article 5. The committee shall have secretaries,
who shall be appointed by the Cabinet in accordance with the recommendation of the Minister of Communications.
The secretaries shall administer general affairs in compliance with orders of superior officials.
Article 6. The committee shall have clerks
who shall be appointed by the Minister of Communications,
and shall take charge of general affairs in compliance with orders of superior officials.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Imperial Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.