I hereby give My sanction to the Law concerning the Contingent Funds of the Diet, 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.82

Article 1. The contingent funds of each House shall be placed under supervision of the President of the respective House.

Article 2. For making any disbursement out of the contingent funds of each House, sanction of the Standing Committee for House Management of the House shall be obtained beforehand or, according to circumstances, after the disbursement.

Article 3. Disbursements made out of the contingent funds of each House shall be reported by the Chairman of the Standing Committee for House Mangagement of the House at the beginning of the following ordinary session so that an approval may be obtained.

Supplementary Provision: The present Law shall come into force as from the day of enforcement of the Diet Law.