I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the special instances of punishments relating to the Fisheries Law, pertaining to the orders to be issued in accordance with the Potsdam Declaration given in the Imperial Ordinance No. 542 in the twentieth year of Showa (1945) and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This sixth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 6, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry WADA Hiroo
Imperial Ordinance No. 529
Article 1. With regard to each of the following ems, any one who has violated the restrictions r prohibitions designated by the competent Minister in accordance with the provision of paragraph of Article 35 of the Fisheries Law, shall be subject to penal servitude for two years or less, or a fine of ¥30,000 (thirty thousand yen) or less, despite the provision of the former part of Article 9 of the same Law:
1. The species, size or number of whales to be taken (excepting size of sei-whales).
2. The sea areas (excluding seas north of 20 North Latitude) or whaling period in which whales are taken.
3. The operation of factory ships used for treating baleen whales on seas south of 40 South Latitude.
4. The utilization of whales taken.
5. The remunerations for the crews of factory ships or whalers.
6. The use of land stations for taking or treating baleen whales.
Article 2. Any one who has violated the restrictions or prohibitions of the preceding Article may be subject to simultaneously penal servitude and fine according to circumstances.
Article 3. In case a representative of a juridical person, an agent, an employee or any other worker of a juridical person or an inlividual has offended against the provision of Article 1 in the performance of the business of a juridcal person or an individual, not only the actual offender shall be punished, but the juridical person or the individual shall also be subject to the monetary penalty of the same Article.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.