法令番号: 法律第81号
公布年月日: 昭和22年4月30日
法令の形式: 法律

審議経過

I hereby give My sanction to the Law concerning the Travelling Expenses and Day Allowances to Witnesses called to the Houses, 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 fourth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (April 28, 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 Seiichiro
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry　KIMURA Kozaemon
Minister of State　TANAKA Man'itsu
Minister of State　TAKASE Sotaro
Law No.81
Article 1.　Persons who have attended either House as witnesses at its request in connection with examination of legislative matters and others, or in connection with investigation of national affairs shall be provided with travelling expenses and daily allowances, in accordance with this Law. However, government officials who have attended as witnesses on their official duties shall not be entitled to receive them.
Article 2.　Travelling expenses shall be divided into three kinds, namely, railway fares, boat fares and carrige fares, the first being paid for travelling by railway, the second for travelling by boat and the third for travelling by land where no railway is available.
Article 3.　Travelling expenses shall he calculated as taking the regular course, except when it is difficult to take the regular course owing to natural calamities or other unavoidable causes.
Article 4.　Daily allowances shall be paid according to the number of days spent.
The number of days spent shall be computed as from the day on which they presented themselves to the House, and include the days during which they stayed as witnesses, as swell as the days on the way computed at the rate of one (1) day per four hundred (400) kilometres for travelling by railway, two hundred (200) kilometres for travelling by boat and fifty (50) kilometres for travelling by land, in addition to the days needed owing to natural calamities or for other unavoidable reasons. However, a fraction of a day shall be calculated as one (1) day.
Article 5.　Railway and steamer fares shall be paid, according to the mileage on the railway and the passenger fares of the boat (including the express fare, travelling tax, lighterage and pierage);carriage fares and daily allowances shall be paid according to the amounts fixed by a joint meeting of the Standing Committees for House Management of the Houses. However, in case of travelling of not more than one hundred (100) kilometres for one way, the express fare shall not be paid.
Article 6.　Regulations concerning the payment of travelling expenses and daily allowances, excepting those provided for in this Law, shall be fixed on consultation between the Presidents of both Houses.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Law shall come into force as from the day of enforcement of the Diet Law.