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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="108" PromulgateDay="17" PromulgateMonth="9" Year="22">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law for the Partial amendments of Law No.11 of 1946 (Law concerning the Exception to the Qualification for Lawyers and Probationary Lawyers).</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This seventeenth day of the ninth month of the twenty second year of Showa (September 17, 1947)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KATAYAMA Tetsu</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.108</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>Part of Law No.11 of 1946 shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 1 there shall be inserted the following paragraph:</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <Paragraph>
              <ParagraphNum/>
              <ParagraphSentence>
                <Sentence>The provision of the preceding paragraph shall apply to those who were in the position of judge or public procurator of Manchukuo after passing the examination mentioned in Article 3 of the Lawyer's Law (in Japan) and qualified through the selection of the Examining Committee of the preceding paragraph:</Sentence>
              </ParagraphSentence>
            </Paragraph>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 2 "the preceding Article" shall read "Paragraph 1 of the preceding Article."</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provisions:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The present Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph Num="2">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>A person who was qualified as a lawyer after May 3, 1947, in accordance with the provision of Art.1, Par.1, and has been in office of lawyer for 3 years, shall be deemed as completed the study as a judicial apprentice on the very day of expiration of term of 3 years.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph Num="3">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>A person who has the qualification for a lawyer in accordance with the provisions of Art.1, Par.2, shall he deemed as completed the study as judicial apprentice upon obtaining the said qualifications.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Justice</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>SUZUKI Yoshio</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KATAYAMA Tetsu</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>