Petition Law
法令番号: 法律第13号
公布年月日: 昭和22年3月13日
法令の形式: 法律

審議経過

I hereby give My sanction to the Petition Law for which the concurrence of the Imperial Diet has been obtained, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twelfth day of the third month of the twentysecond year of Showa (March 12, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs　YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of State　Baron　SHIDEHARA Kijuro
Minister of Justice　KIMURA Tokutaro
Minister of State　SAITO Takao
Minister of Communications　HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi
Minister of State　HOSHIJIMA Niro
Minister of Welfare　KAWAI Yoshinari
Minister for Home Affairs　UEHARA Etsujiro
Minister of Finance　ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Minister of State　KANAMORI Tokujiro
Minister of Transportation　MASUDA Kaneshichi
Minister of Commerce and Industry　ISHII Mitsujiro
Minister of Education　TAKAHASHI Seiichir
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry　KIMURA Kozaemon
Minister of State　TANAKA Man-itsu
Law No.13
Petition Law
Art.1.　The provisions of the present Law shall apply to the petition, of not otherwise provided for by a law.
Art.2.　The petition shall be made by a written form by entering the name (the title in the case of a judicial person) and domicile (address, in the case of having not domicile) of the petitioner.
Art.3.　The petition shall be filed to the governmental or public office which has the jurisdiction for petition matters. The petition for the Emperor shall be filed to the Cabinet.
The petition may be filed to the Cabinet, if the competent governmental or public office for petition matter is indistinct.
Art.4.　When the petition is filed, by mistake, to the other governmental or public office than that as provoded for by the preceding paragraph, the said office shall indicate the legal office to the petitioner, or transmit the said petition of the legal office.
Art.5.　The petition in conformity with the present Law, shall be received and disposed of in sincerity by the governmental or public office.
Art.6.　Any person shall not be treated otherwise for filing a petition.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Law shall come into force as from the day of enforcement of the Japanese Constitution.