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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="ImperialOrder" Num="615" PromulgateDay="27" PromulgateMonth="12" Year="21">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments to the Regulations governing the Organization of the Welfare Ministry etc. and cause the same to be promulgated.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>This twenty-sixth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (December 26, 1946)</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned: Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Welfare</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KAWAI Yoshinari</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Imperial Ordinance No. 615</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Article Num="1">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 1.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The following amendments shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the Organization of the Welfare Ministry.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 10, Secretary of Welfare Ministry, "Regular Officials 249" shall read "Regular Officials 246," and "Regular Officials 854" shall read "Regular Officials 844."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="2">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 2.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The following amendments shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the establishment of temporal staff in the Welfare Division.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 1, "Health Bureau" shall read "Public Health Preservation Bureau, Medical Affairs Bureau and Infectious Diseases Prevention Bureau."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 2, paragraph 1, "Health Bureau" shall read "Medical Affairs Bureau."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="3">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 3.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The following staff shall be appointed in the Welfare Ministry and attached to Social Bureau in order to let them engage in the business pertaining to Social Work as well as the protection of national livelihood:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <List>
            <ListSentence>
              <Sentence>Secretaries of Welfare Ministry</Sentence>
            </ListSentence>
            <Sublist1>
              <Sublist1Sentence>
                <Column Num="1">
                  <Sentence>Regular Officials 2</Sentence>
                </Column>
                <Column Num="2">
                  <Sentence>2nd Class</Sentence>
                </Column>
              </Sublist1Sentence>
            </Sublist1>
            <Sublist1>
              <Sublist1Sentence>
                <Column Num="1">
                  <Sentence>Regular Officials 8</Sentence>
                </Column>
                <Column Num="2">
                  <Sentence>3rd Class</Sentence>
                </Column>
              </Sublist1Sentence>
            </Sublist1>
          </List>
        </Paragraph>
        <Paragraph Num="2">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 4, paragraph 1, Secretary of Welfare Ministry, "<QuoteStruct>
                <List>
                  <ListSentence>
                    <Sentence>Regular Officials</Sentence>
                  </ListSentence>
                </List>
                <List>
                  <ListSentence>
                    <Sentence>16 Regular Officials 27</Sentence>
                  </ListSentence>
                </List>
              </QuoteStruct>" shall read "<QuoteStruct>
                <List>
                  <ListSentence>
                    <Sentence>Regular Officials 27</Sentence>
                  </ListSentence>
                </List>
                <List>
                  <ListSentence>
                    <Sentence>Regular Officials 42</Sentence>
                  </ListSentence>
                </List>
              </QuoteStruct>"In the Technical Official of Welfare Ministry, "<QuoteStruct>
                <List>
                  <ListSentence>
                    <Sentence>Regular Officials 2</Sentence>
                  </ListSentence>
                </List>
                <List>
                  <ListSentence>
                    <Sentence>Regular Official 1</Sentence>
                  </ListSentence>
                </List>
              </QuoteStruct>" shall read "<QuoteStruct>
                <List>
                  <ListSentence>
                    <Sentence>Regular Officials 5</Sentence>
                  </ListSentence>
                </List>
                <List>
                  <ListSentence>
                    <Sentence>Regular Officials 5</Sentence>
                  </ListSentence>
                </List>
              </QuoteStruct>."</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="6">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 6.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The following staff shall be appointed in the Welfare Ministry and attached to Insurance Bureau in order to let them engage in the business pertaining to Social Insurance.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <List>
            <ListSentence>
              <Sentence>Secretary of Welfare Ministry</Sentence>
            </ListSentence>
            <Sublist1>
              <Sublist1Sentence>
                <Column Num="1">
                  <Sentence>Regular Official 1</Sentence>
                </Column>
                <Column Num="2">
                  <Sentence>2nd Class</Sentence>
                </Column>
              </Sublist1Sentence>
            </Sublist1>
          </List>
          <List>
            <ListSentence>
              <Sentence>Technical Official of Welfare Ministry</Sentence>
            </ListSentence>
            <Sublist1>
              <Sublist1Sentence>
                <Column Num="1">
                  <Sentence>Regular Official 1</Sentence>
                </Column>
                <Column Num="2">
                  <Sentence>2nd Class</Sentence>
                </Column>
              </Sublist1Sentence>
            </Sublist1>
          </List>
        </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 its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
</Law>