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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="139" PromulgateDay="24" PromulgateMonth="11" Year="22">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law concerning the partial amendment to be made to the Private Railway Law.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-second year of Shows (November 24, 1947)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KATAYAMA Tetsu</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.139</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Private Railway Law shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Art.1, Par.3, the words "and an aerial cable tramway" shall be added immediately after the clause "which connects with a government or private railway."</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <NewProvision>
            <Article Num="29">
              <ArticleTitle>Art.29</ArticleTitle>
              <Paragraph Num="1">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>shall be deleted.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
            </Article>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The present Law shall come into force as from January 1, 1948.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Transportation</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>TOMABECHI Gizo</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KATAYAMA Tetsu</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>