I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments to the Enforcement Ordinance of the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This nineteenth day of the second month of the twenty-second year of Showa (February 19, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry KIMURA Kozaemon
Imperial Ordinance No. 52
Partial amendments to the Enforcement Ordinance for the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law shall made be as follows:
In Article 1, item 4, "the Prefectural Governor" shall read "the Central Agricultural Land Commission, the Agricultural Land Commission of the Metropolis, the District, a Special Prefecture or a Prefecture, or the Agricultural Land Commission of a City, Town or Village."
In Article 25-(4) paragraph 4, "natural calamity" shall read "natural calamity, etc."
In paragraph 9 of Article 25-(6), the following proviso shall be added:
As regards the category for which the voting is not held, however, this shall not be apply.
In the proviso to paragraph 13 of the same Article, "two persons shall read one person" shall be deleted.
Article 28-(4). The Prefectural Governor may order the dissolution of the Agricultural Land Commission of a City, Town or Village on demand of the Agricultural Land Commission of the Metropolis, the District, a Special Prefecture or a Prefecture.
When the dissolution of the Agricultural Land Commission of a City, Town or Village took place, the election shall be held within two weeks of the day of the dissolution.
Article 30-(2). Where the chairman of the Agricultural Land Commission of a City, Town or Village is deemed unsuitable for the business management of the said Commission, the Commission may recall the chairman by its decision.
In Article 43, "Article 25-(4), paragraph 2, item 3" shall read "Article 25, paragraphs 2 to 4" and "and Article 28-(3)" shall read "Articles 28-(3) to 30 and 31" and before "Article 25-(6), paragraph 12" "in Article 25-(6), paragraph 4 and paragraph 9, Article 25-(15), paragraph 1, Article 25-(16), paragraph 1 and Article 31 'each item of paragraph 3 of Article 15-(2) of the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law' shall read 'item 1 to 3 of paragraph 3 of Article 15-(14) of the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law', in Article 25-(6), pargagraph 9 'the person whose name is stated in the List of Delectors of the said category' shall read 'mutual elector belonging to the said category' (In cases where the number of the mutual electors who are able to attend the polling meeting is one or two, the mutual elector belonging to the said category or the person whose names are stated in the List of Electors in which the names of the said persons are stated,)" shall be added and "in Article 25-(15), paragraph 1, Article 25-(16), paragraph 1 and Article 31, Article 15-(2), item 3 shall read items 1-3 of paragraph 3 of Article 15-(14)" shall read "in Article 28-(4) the Agricultural Land Commission of the Metropolis, the District, a Special Prefecture or a Prefecture shall read Central Agricultural Land Commission."
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.