Article 1. Compensation granted to those who served formerly in the Army or Navy and are not yet demobilized (hereinafter be called simply the "undemobilized person" ) shall be made as provided for by the present Law except those prescribed by other laws and ordinances.
Article 2. Compensation granted to the undemobilized person shall be enumerated base pay, family allowance and home-coming travelling expenses.
Article 3. The undemobilized person shall be given base pay the amount of which is 100 yen per month.
Base pay shall be given in the aggregate of individual ones for the past, when he arrives at the homeland (excluding Karafuto;the same shall apply hereinafter) and the demobilization process is completed, provided that, in case of special need, it may be given to the person specified by order even before the demobilization process is completed.
Article 4. The undemobilized person who has his family dependents as specified by order shall be given family allowance.
The monthly amount of family allowance shall be the amount of 150 yen multiplied by the number of dependents prescribed in the preceding Paragraph.
With respect to the undemobilized person who cranes under Par.1 and whose dependents are being granted compensation according to the former regulations at the time of the enforcement of this Law, in case the monthly total amount of his base pay and family allowance to his dependents is less than the monthly amount of compensation actually granted to his dependents according to the former regulation at the time of the enforcement of this Law, the monthly amount of family allowance prescribed in the preceding Paragraph plus the amount exceeding the balance may be regarded as his monthly amount of family allowance. However, this amount plus the monthly base pay prescribed in the preceding Article shall not exceed the monthly compensation granted as of March, 1947 to his family according to the former regulation.
Family allowance shall be paid each month to one of his dependents in accordance with the prescription of order;provided, that it may be paid in a lump sum within the limit of three-months amount, if the agency in charge of the payment concerned regards it necessary.
Those who are receiving the family allowance or those who are designated by order shall, when they come under any of the following items, be required to report it without delay to the agency in charge of the payment concerned:
1. When a new family dependent is properly justified;
2. When a dependent loses his substantial requirement of dependency.
Family allowance shall be granted anew, or amended of its amount, or discontinued, each case starting from the month following the month in which the fact mentioned in the preceding items arises.
Article 5. When an undemobilized person is demobilized or dies, base pay and family allowance are granted in full for the month in which the occasion takes place.
Base pay and family allowance granted during the period from the month following the month in which the undemobilized person was demobilized or died to the time his demobilization or death is properly justified, may be allowed not to be returned back to the National Treasury.
In the case of his demobilization or of his death the provision of the preceding Paragraph shall not apply to those who are entitled to receive base pay and family allowance granted to the undemobilized person unless they inform promptly the agency in charge of the payment concerned of such fact.
Article 6. In case an undemobilized person is arrested, interned or executed by the order of the Allied Forces with an offence of war criminal or as a war criminal suspect, base pay and family allowance shall not be granted after the month following the month in which the arrest, internment or the execution is carried out.
In case those the person who comes under the preceding Paragraph is set free from confinement before being prosecuted or declared as having committed no crime, base pay and family allowance the payment of which has been suspended under the preceding Paragraph shall be granted again as from the month of the suspension.
The provisions of the Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the preceding Article shall apply with necessary modifications to the case of Paragraph 1 of the present Article.
Article 7. The undemobilized person shall be given 300 yen as his home-coming travelling expenses, provided that it shall not be paid to those who are demobilized abroad and to those who are executed with an offence of war criminal by the order of the Allied Forces.
Article 8. In case an undemobilized person dies, his bereaved family may be paid 270 yen per dead as the expenses necessary for the receipt of the remains and 310 yen per dead as the expenses for burial, provided that the bereaved family of the person who is designated by order shall not be paid the expenses for burial.
The scope and order of the bereaved family prescribed in the preceding Paragraph shall be spouse, child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother or sister, and the one who holds funeral rite for the deceased in case there is none of these direct relatives existing, and in case of those standiug in the same order, the senior shall be regarded prior to the junior.