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.