I hereby promulgate the Law for the Enforcement of the Imperial House Economy Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This second day of the tenth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (October 2, 1947)
Prime Minister KATAYAMA Tetsu
The Law for the Enforcement of the Imperial House Economy Law
Article 1. The purpose of this Law is to specify the fixed sums concerning the Inner Court Appropriation and the Imperial Family Appropriation and to provide for other necessary matters for the enforcement of the Imperial House Economy Law (called the Law hereinafter).
Article 2. The amount mentioned in Article 2, Paragraph 1, Item 1 of the Law shall be fixed at 50,000 yen.
The amount mentioned in Article 2, Paragraph 1, Item 2 of the Law shall be fixed at 100,000 yen.
Article 3. The amount mentioned in Article 2, Paragraph 3 of the Law shall be fixed at 150,000 yen.
Article 4. With regard to the Emperor as well as the Empress, the Grand Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, the amount mentioned in Article 2, Paragraph 1, Item 2 of the Law shall be fixed at three times the amount stipulated in Article 2, Paragraph 2.
Article 5. With regard to the Emperor and those members of the Imperial Family specified in Article 4 of the Law, the amount mentioned in Article 2, Paragraph 3 of the Law shall, in the aggregate, be fixed at 1,200,000 yen.
Article 6. The year mentioned in Article 2, Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Law shall be the period from April 1 of each year to March 31 of the following year.
Article 7. The sum mentioned in Article 4, Paragraph 1 of the Law shall be fixed at 8,000,000 yen.
Article 8. The sum mentioned in Article 6, Paragraph 1 of the Law shall be fixed at 200,000 yen.
Article 9. The Inner Court Appropriation and the Imperial Family Appropriations on the bases of the fixed sums as specified in the two preceding Articles shall be neither expended nor allocated unless and until provision has been made therefore in the expenditure budget passed by the Diet.
Supplementary Provisions:
The present Law was applied as from August 1, 1947.
Law No.71, 1947 (Law concerning the Enforcement of the Imperial House Economy Law) shall hereby be abolished.
In the 22nd fiscal year of Showa, the provisions of Article 2, Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Law shall apply with regard to the period from August 1, 1947 to March 31, 1948, and the fixed amount mentioned in Article 2, Paragraph 3 of the Law shall be eight-twelfths of the amount specified in Articles 3 and 5 of the present Law.