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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="ImperialOrder" Num="495" PromulgateDay="28" PromulgateMonth="10" Year="21">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby give My Sanction to the Regulations governing the Organization of the Reconversion Finance Commission and cause the same to be promulgated.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>This twenty-sixth day of the tenth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (October 26, 1946)</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned: Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Commerce and Industry</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>HOSHIJIMA Niro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Finance</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>ISHIBASHI Tanzan</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Imperial Ordinance No. 495</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>Regulations governing Organization of Reconversion Finance Commission</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Article Num="1">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 1.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The Reconversion Finance Commission shall dispose of matters coming under its authority as prescribed in the provisions of the Reconversion Finance Bank Law.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="2">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>In addition to the matter as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the Commission shall, on the inquiry made by various Ministers concerned, investigate and deliberate upon important matters relating to the actual operation of the business of the Reconversion Finance Bank.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="3">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The Commission can refer to various Ministers concerned in respect to the matters prescribed in the preceding paragraph.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="2">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 2.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The Commission shall have one Chairman, one Vice-Chairman and ten or less commissioners.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="3">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 3.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
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          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>Finance Minister shall be the Chairman of the Commission.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="2">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The Minister for State Affairs who is the President of Economic Stabilization Board shall be the Vice-Chairman.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="3">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>Commissioners shall be composed of the following persons:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <Item Num="1">
            <ItemTitle>1.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Column Num="1">
                <Sentence>Various Ministers concerned,</Sentence>
              </Column>
              <Column Num="2">
                <Sentence>two.</Sentence>
              </Column>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="2">
            <ItemTitle>2.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The President of the Bank of Japan.</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="3">
            <ItemTitle>3.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Column Num="1">
                <Sentence>Persons of distinguished knowledge and experience,</Sentence>
              </Column>
              <Column Num="2">
                <Sentence>seven or less.</Sentence>
              </Column>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="4">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>Commissioners shall be appointed except the person prescribed in Item 2 of the preceding paragraph by the Cabinet through the recommendation of Finance Minister to the Throne.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="4">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 4.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The Chairman shall preside over the affairs of the Commission.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="2">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The Vice-Chairman shall assist the Chairman and act on behalf of the Chairman in case he is absent.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="3">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>In case both the Chairman and Vice-Chairman are absent, the person nominated by the Chairman shall act on behalf of them.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="5">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 5.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The Commission shall have managers.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="2">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The managers shall be appointed by the Cabinet through the recommendation of Finance Minister to the Throne.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="3">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The managers shall settle the general affairs of the Commission under the direction of the Chairman.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="6">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 6.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The Commission shall have secretaries.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="2">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The secretaries shall be appointed by Finance Minister.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="3">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The secretaries shall manage the general affairs of the Commission under the direction of the senior persons.</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 the Emforcement of the Reconversion Finance Bank Law.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
</Law>