法令番号: 勅令第3号
公布年月日: 昭和22年1月4日
法令の形式: 勅令

審議経過

I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the Exclusion from the Candidature for Mayor of City, Headman of Town or Village and Others, under the Imperial Ordinance No. 452 of 1946 relating to the Orders to be issued in consequence of the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This fourth day of the first month of the twenty-second year of Showa (January 4, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister　YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister for Home Affairs　OMURA Seiichi
Imperial Ordinance No. 3
Persons who have held position of mayor or deputy-mayor consecutively from the day of or prior to September 1, 1945 till September 1, 1946 shall be barred, even though they do not fall under the provisions of the Memorandum as prescribed in Article III of the Imperial Ordinance No. 1 of 1947, from being candidate for mayorship and also from being appointed to deputy-mayor, at the first election to be held in pursuance of the provisions of the Law No. 28 of 1946 (Law to amend a part of the Law for the Organization of Cities) and furthermore during four years beginning with the day of the said election.
Persons who have held position of mayor or deputy-mayor prescribed in the preceding paragraph who held the office of deputy mayor at the day of assumption of office by new mayors elected by the election mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be removed from their offices on that day.
Provisions of the preceding two paragraphs shall be applied correspondingly to ward headmen of wards in Tokyo Metropolis, headmen or deputy-headmen of towns or of villages and those corresponding to the above.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Imperial Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.