The Pension Law shall be partially amended as follows: "Imperial Ordinance" shall read "Cabinet Ordinance." Paragraph 2, Article 6 shall be deleted. Paragraph 2, Article 8 shall be deleted. In paragraph 2, Article 13, "plead or sue at a Court of Administrative Litigation" shall read "plead" ;the proviso to the same paragraph shall be deleted;and the following paragraph shall be added to the same Article as paragraph 13: The report or plea prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, can not be made relative to a matter about which a suit has already been filed with a law-court. In paragraph 1, Article 20, "other than officials of the Imperial Household Ministry" shall be deleted. Item 2, Article 23 shall be deleted, and the following item shall be added: 4. Imperial Palace guards who are either Imperial assistant inspectors or Imperial Palace guard officials. The proviso to item 2, Article 25 shall be deleted.

Article 33 shall be deleted.

Items 3 and 6, Article 41 shall be deleted. Item 1, paragraph 1, Article 42 and the latter part of paragraph 2, Article 42 shall be deleted.

Article 53 shall be deleted.

Article 57 shall be deleted.

In item 1, paragraph 1, Article 58, "or Courtofficials prescribed in item 1, paragraph 1, Article 42" shall be deleted. Supplementary Provisions:

Article 1. The present Law shall come into force from the day of the enforcement of the new Constitution of Japan. However, the Revised Provisions of item 4, Article 23 and the latter part of paragraph 2, Article 42 shall apply from the 1st of January, 1947.

Article 2. In cases where persons who are entitled to ordinary pensions, additional pensions, or disability pensions are appointed, before the enforcement of the present Law, within one year of retirement, to be Courtofficials under the provisions of the Pension Law of the Imperial Household Ministry hitherto in force, they shall be regarded as public-officials who have resumed their offices, as far as the application of the provisions of Article 6 of the Pension Law is concerned.

Article 3. Regarding the Pensions and the calculation of length of service of the Court-officials under the provisions of the Pension Law of the Imperial Household Ministry hitherto in force, they shall be governed by previous instances. However, the provisions of item 1 and item 2, paragraph 1, Article 8, and of paragraph 2 of the same Article of the Supplementary Provisions of Imperial Household Ordinance No.1 issued in 1933, shall not apply in the calculation of length of service which will qualify persons for pensions after the enforcement of the present Law.

Article 4. Pensions given under the provisions of the Pension Law of the Imperial Household Ministry hitherto in force, shall be regarded as those given under the provisions of the Pension Law. The pensions mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be paid from the National Treasury.

Article 5. Regarding the Court-officials under the provisions of the Pension Law of the Imperial Household Ministry hitherto in force who remain in office as public-officials at the time of the enforcement of the present Law, they shall be regarded as continuing their official service.

Article 6. With regard to the number of years to be added with respect to the years in service prior to the enforcement of this Law when reckoning the number of years of service, the heretofore existing practices shall apply irrespective of the revised provisions of Article 33.

Article 7. Persons who have been sentenced to penal servitude of imprisonment not exceeding two years before the enforcement of the present Law, shall be treated as governed by previous instances, in spite of the revised provisions of item 3, Article 41.

Article 8. Regarding the pensions and the calculation of length of service of sergeants-at-arms of the House of Peers or of the House of Representatives under the provisions hitherto in force, they shall be governed by previous instances.

Article 9. Regarding the public officials under provisions hitherto in force who remain in office as Officials of the Diet Secretariat at the time of the enforcement of the present Law, they shall be regarded as continuing their service in the same official status as hitherto given them, and the provisions of the Pension Law shall be applied mutatis mutandis to them for the time being.

Article 10. Regarding the public-officials who remain in office as officials of ordinary local public entities such as To, Do, Fu and Ken, at the time of the enforcement of the present Law, they shall be regarded as continuing their service in the same official status as hitherto given them;and the provisions of the present Pension Law shall be applied mutatis mutandis to them for the time being.

Article 11. With regard to the order of precedence for granting compensation allowance under the provision of paragraph 2 of Article 73 of the Pensions Law and to adopted persons to whom compensation allowances are to be granted under the provision of paragraph 3 of Article 74 of the same Law, special provisions may be made by Order of he Cabinet for some time to come.