I hereby give My sanction to the Law concerning the Partial Amendments to be made to the Temporary Demand and Supply Adjustment 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 twenty-eighth day of the third month of the twenty-second year of Showa (March 28, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro
Minister of Welfare KAWAI Yoshinari
Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Minister of Transportation MASUDA Kaneshichi
Minister of Commerce and Industry ISHII Mitsujiro
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry KIMURA Kozaemon
A part of the Temporary Demand and Supply Adjustment Law shall be amended as follows:
In Article 1, "or the shipment" shall read "shipment or the transportation."
Article 2 shall be deleted.
In paragraph 1 of Article 3, "the enterprises concerned or the designated trade associations by the provision of Article 2" shall read "the persons cocerned," and "or shipment" shall read "shipment or transportation."
In Article 5, "6 months" shall read "1 year," and "5,000 yen" shall read "10,000 yen."
In Article 6, "paragraph 1" shall be deleted.
Article 7. In case of any violations of orders issued concerning the transfer, delivery or lending of materials or equipments according to the provision of paragraph 1, item 4 of Article 1, or any violations of orders issued concerning the report of materials or equipments according to the provision of paragraph 1 of Article 3, whole or part of the materials or equipments involved and owned or possessed by the offender may be confiscated. In case any other than the offender acquired the same goods knowing offence after offence has been committed, the same materials or equipments may be also confiscated.
In case whole or part of the goods are unable to be confiscated as provided in the preceding paragraph, the value for the goods may be forfeited.
Supplementary Provisions:
This Law shall come into force as from April 1, 1947.
The provisions of Article 2 shall be effective excluding the provisions of paragraph 2 of the same Article, after the enforcement of this Law, in case the Director General of Board of Economic Stabilization may after April 1, 1947, on a month to month basis authorize the designation of certain associations to handle temporarily such control functions as may be provided for in separate orders.