I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendment of the Land and House Rent Control Ordinance and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-ninth day of the first month of the twenty-second year of Showa (January 29, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro
Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi
Imperial Ordinance No. 27
The Land and House Rent Control Ordinance is partly amended as follows:
Article 5. With respect to the ceiling amount or the authorized amount of the house-rent deemed unjust or inequitable, the Director-General of Price Board may fix a uniform adjusting percentage on the basis of prefecture-wide or city-wide scope corresponding to the time of construction.
In furtherance of the preceding paragraph, the ceiling amount or the authorized amount of the house-rent adjusted on a uniform percentage basis (in case it exceeds the amount fixed by the Director-General of Price Board, the amount fixed by the same Director-General shall respectively be the ceiling amount or the authorized amount of the house-rent concerned).
The determination of the prefecture or city and the uniform percentage in paragraph 1 as well as of the amount to be fixed by the Director-General of Price Board in the preceding paragraph shall be made by notification.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.