I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance relating to the enforcement of Law No. 60 of 1946 concerning Exceptional Measures for Government Contracts and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This sixteenth day of the first month of the twenty-second year of Showa (January 16, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Imperial Ordinance No. 11
Article 1. According to the provision of Article 1, paragraph 1 of Law No. 60 of 1946 (the Law concerning Exceptional Measures for Government Contracts, hereinafter to be called the Law), the contracts of which the Government is the party interested (hereinafter to be called the specified contracts) shall be as follows:
1. The contract for civil construction, building and other construction work and loading and unloading, transportation and other work made in accordance with the instruction of Supreme Commander of Allied Forces (including his agent).
2. The contract for civil construction, building and other construction work and the work of dismantling, packing, loading and unloading, transporting and other work in connection with the custody and removal of the equipments and materials which are expected for reparations.
Article 2. The designation of the determined amount of payment to the contracting party of the specified contract made according to the provision of Article 1, paragraph 1 of the Law shall be made within the period as specified in the following:
1. As regards each contract, of which the estimated or the roughly calculated amount is less than three million yen, on the day when the work or the operation is recognised as finished and completed by the official in charge of the contract, three months from the following day on which the said recognition is given.
2. As regards each contract, or which the estimated or the roughly calculated amount is not less than three million yen, on the day when the work or the operation is recognised as finished and completed by the official in charge of the contract, four months from the following day on which the said recognition is given.
the aforesaid period is to be calculated from the following day on which the said Imperial Ordinance is put into affect.
As regards the specified contract for the work or the operation which has been recognized by the official in charge of the contract as already finished and completed, on the day of the operation of this Imperial Ordinance,
Article 3. The notice of the designated amount to the contracting party of the specified contract made according to the provision of Article 1, paragraph 2 of the Law shall be made in writing by the official in charge of the contract concerned.
Article 4. According to the provisions of Article 4 of the Law, the contracting party of the special contract shall be provided with the following books and documents, in accordance with the direction of the Minister of Finance.
1. The books and documents in which clear and distinct mentions are given of the original costs of each single contract.
2. The books and documents in which clear and distinct mentions are given concerning the assets, obligations and the loss and profit.
Article 5. In case the official concerned or the official of the to (Metropolis of Tokyo), Hokkaido or prefectures make inspection and examination, in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of the Law, the said inspecting and examining official must carry with him the certificate as fixed by the Minister of Finance, and show the same upon the demand of the party concerned.
Article 6. When it is desired that the official of the to, Hokkaido, or prefectures shall be made to engage in the aforesaid business, by the provisions of Article 5, paragraph 2 of the Law, the Governor of the to, Hokkaido, or prefectures to which the said official concerned belongs, is to choose and appoint such official from among those who are possessed of necessary knowledge and experience concerning the special contract.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.