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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="126" PromulgateDay="29" PromulgateMonth="10" Year="22">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law concerning the Partial Amendment of the Court Organization Law, etc.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This twenty-ninth day of the tenth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (October 29, 1947)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KATAYAMA Tetsu</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.126</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Article Num="1">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 1.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The Court Organization Law shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>The following proviso shall be added to Article 57, Paragraph 2:</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
            <NewProvision>
              <Sentence Function="proviso">But some of them may be first class officials. The maximum number shall be fixed elsewhere by statute.</Sentence>
            </NewProvision>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="2">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 2.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>The Law for the Enforcement of the Court Organization Law shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 3, Paragraph 7, "within six months after the enforcement of the Court Organization Law" shall read "by the 31st of December of the 22nd year of Showa (1947)."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="3">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 3.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>Law No.64 of the 22nd year of Showa (1947) shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 1,"<QuoteStruct>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>full time service 814 and</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>"full time service 250</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                </QuoteStruct>" shall read<QuoteStruct>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>"full time service 867"</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>"full time service 252</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                </QuoteStruct>."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 3,the following paragraph shall be added:</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
            <NewProvision>
              <Paragraph>
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>The maximum number of officials who may be first class officials in accordance with the provisions of the proviso to Article 57, Paragraph 2 of the Court Organization Law shall be ten.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
            </NewProvision>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 4,"<QuoteStruct>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>full time service 1,"</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>"full time service 176" and</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>"full time service 2764</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                </QuoteStruct>"shall respectively read "<QuoteStruct>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>full time service 4,"</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>"full time service 259" and</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>"full time service 3157</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                </QuoteStruct>"</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 5,"<QuoteStruct>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>full time service 1</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>and"full time service 2</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                </QuoteStruct>"shall read"<QuoteStruct>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>full time service 2"</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                  <TableRow>
                    <TableColumn>
                      <Sentence>"full time service 11</Sentence>
                    </TableColumn>
                  </TableRow>
                </QuoteStruct>."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="4">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 4.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>Law No.65 of the 22nd year of Showa (1947) shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <AmendProvision>
            <AmendProvisionSentence>
              <Sentence>In Article 3, Paragraph 2, "or second" shall be deleted, and in Paragraph 4 of the same Article, before "second rank" there shall be added "first or."</Sentence>
            </AmendProvisionSentence>
          </AmendProvision>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The present Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.</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>