I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments to be made to the Regulations governing the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry Organization as well as the Temporary Officers Regulations and others in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This fifth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 5, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry WADA Hiroo
Imperial Ordinance No. 519
Article 1. A part of the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry Organization is amended as follows:
In Article 14, "or Technical Official of Agriculture and Forestry" is added after "Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry."
Article 2. A part of the Temporary Officers Regulations in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is amended as follows:
In Article 1
"Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry
full service 2 persons 1st class
full service 88 ,, 2nd ,,
Technical Official of the Agriculture and Forestry
full service 283 persons 2nd class (Two of whom may be made 1st class)
Secretary or Technical Official of the Agriculture and Forestry
full service 695 persons 3nd class
"shall read"
Secretary or Technical Official of the Agriculture and Forestry
full service 7 persons 1st class
Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry
full service 142 persons 2nd class
Technical Official of Agriculture and Forestry
full service 363 persons 2nd class (Two of whon may be made 1st class)
Secretary or Technical Official of Agriculture and Forestry
full service 921 persons 3rd class
."
Article 4-4. The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry may set up the Temporary Rural Land Board at the necessary places, alloting the business for the Owner-farmer Establishing Special Measures, adjustment for agricultural lands and repatriating to farmers, as well as governmental reclamation works, drainage and improvement works of agricultural irrigation.
Directors of the Temporary Rural Land Board are to be assumed with 1st class or 2nd class Secretaries or Technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.