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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="19" PromulgateDay="27" PromulgateMonth="3" Year="22">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby give My sanction with the advice of the Privy Council to the Law concerning the Exceptions to the Account Law and others for which the concurrence of the Imperial Diet has been obtained, and cause the same to be promulgated.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>This twenty-sixth day of the third month of the twenty-second year of Showa (March 26, 1947)</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned: Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Finance</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>ISHIBASHI Tanzan</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.19</LawNum>
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    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The General Budget of Revenue and Expenditure for the fiscal year 1946-47, in spite of the provision of paragraph 1, Article 8 of the Accounting Law, shall be divided mainly into Parts, in accordance with the sources of revenue and function of expenditure, each Part being sub-divided into Titles and Subtitles, and, further, shall be classified by organization units so as to make clear the distinction between Sections and Bureaus.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph Num="2">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The provision of Article 9 of the Accounting Law shall not be applied for the reserve fund to be provided for in the General Budget of Revenue and Expenditure for the fiscal year 1946-47 and the Budget of Revenue and Expenditure of Special Accounts.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph Num="3">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Budget of Revenue and Expenditure for Special Accounts for the fiscal year 1946-47, in spite of the provision of the respective Special Account Law, may not be required to be submitted to the Diet with General Budget of Revenue and Expenditure.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>This Law shall be applied as from the day of the presentation of the General Budget for the Fiscal year 1946-47.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
</Law>