Article 1.　The age of the person qualified to be elected member of the House of Councillors shall be computed according to the date of election.

Article 2.　A meeting of the electoral administrative committee for the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country shall be called by the chairman of the committee. In a case where a demand for the convocation of a meeting of the committee has been made by a committeeman, the chairman of the committee must call a meeting thereof.

Article 3.　The chairman or a member of the electoral administrative committee for the members of the House of Councillors shall not take part in the proceedings of a meetng of the committee relating to such business as concerns the personal interests of his own or of his parent, grand-parent, consort, child, grand-child, brother or sister; provided, however, that he may attend and speak at such a meeting upon obtaining the consent of the committee.

Article 4.　The electoral administrative committee for the members of a city, town or village assembly shall, in a case where the public notice or the notice of the day of election has been given, forth with send forward to respective superintendent of the poll the register of electors (in a case where there fails to exist such register of electors as has been prepared for the same area as the area of a polling division, such portion of the register of electors as relates to the area of the polling division).

Aricle 5. The electoral administrative committee for the members of a city, town or village assembly shall, from among the persons who have the right to vote at the election of the members of the House of Councillors, beforehand choose a person who shall act for the superintendent of the poll in a case where the latter cannot attend to his duties.　In a case where both the superintendent of the poll and the person to act for him cannot attend their duties, the chairman of the electoral administrative committee for the members of a city, town or village assembly shall, from among the electoral administrative committeemen for the members of a city, town or village assembly or the clerks of the electoral administrative committee for the member of a city, town or village assembly, appoint a person who shall provisionally take charge of the duties devolving upon the superintendent of the poll.

With respect to the denial of a vote which has been made in Braille points, the provisions of Article 24 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors shall be applied. In such a case an envelope which is impressed on the surface thereof with a stamp to the effect that the vote is cast in Braille points shall be delivered.　The vote which has provisionally been cast in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall, in so far as the application of the provisions of Article 32 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors is concerned, be deemed to be a vote contemplated in Article 24, paragraphs 2 and 4, of the same Law.

Such documents as relate to the poll shall be preserved by the electoral administrative committee for the members of a city, town or village assembly during the term of office of the members of the House of Councillors.　Article 8.

The electoral adminstrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly shall, in a case where it has determined the day of the poll in accordance with the provisions of Article 25 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors, forthwith give notice thereof and at the same time shall notify the same to the superintendents of the poll and the superintendents for the counting of the votes.　Article 9.

The electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly shall, in a case where it has determined the day of the poll in accordance with the provisions of Article 26 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors, forthwith notify the same to the superintendents of the poll, the superintendents for the counting of the votes, and the presiding officer of election (the chief officer of a branch election meeting, in respect of the election of the members of the House of Councillors).　Article 10.

With respect to the poll, in addition to the provisions prescribed in the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors, the present Imperial Ordinance and the Orders issued in pursuance of the said Law, such provisions as relate to the poll at the election of the members of the House of Representatives shall apply.　Chapter III The Counting of Votes

With respect to the case where a division for the counting of the votes has been created by uniting the areas of several towns or villages the following provisions shall apply.　1.

The provisions of Article 5 shall apply with the necessary modifications to the superintendent for the counting of the votes and the person acting for him.　In a case of the division for the counting of the votes contemplated in the preceding Article, the electoral administrative committees for the members of town or village assemblies of the towns or villages concerned shall, from among the persons who have the right to vote at the election of the members of the House of Councillors, beforehand choose by their mutual agreement a person who shall, in a case where the superintendent for the counting of the votes cannot attend to his duties, act for him. In a case where such mutual agreement has not been concluded, the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly shall appoint such a person.

The electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural committee shall, in a case where it has, in accordance with the provisions of Article 32, paragraph 2 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors, determined the area in which ballots shall be subject to scrutiny, forthwith give notice of the same.　Article 14.

The superintendent for the counting of the votes shall, in a case where he makes a return contemplated in Article 32, paragraph 3 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors, send forward a tenor of the record of the counting of the votes at the same time.　The superintendent for the counting of the votes shall, immediately after he has made a return contemplated in the preceding paragraph, send back to the electoral administrative committees for the members of the town or village assemblies of the towns or villages concerned the registers of electors which have been sent forward by the superintendent of the poll.

Such documents as relate to the counting of the votes shall, during the term of office of the members of the House of Councillors, be preserved by the electoral administrative committee for the members of a city, town or village assembly; provided, however, that in such a case the provisions of Article 11, item 2 shall apply with the necessary modifications.　Article 16.

The electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee of the members of a district or urban or rural assembly shall, in a case where it has determined the day for the counting of the votes in accordance with the provisions of Article 37 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors, forthwith notify the same to the superintendents for the counting of the votes and the presiding officer of election (the chief officer of a branch election meeting, in respect of the election of the members of the House of Councillors).　Article 17.

With respect to the counting of the votes, in addition to the provisions of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors, the present Imperial Ordinance and the Order issued in persuance of the said Law such provisions as relate to the counting of the votes at the election of the members of the House of Representatives shall apply.　Chapter IV Election Meetings and Branch Election Meetings

The electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly shall, from among the persons who have the right to vote at the election of the members of the House of Councillors, beforehand choose a person who shall act for the presiding officer of election in a case where the latter cannot attend to his duties.　In cases where both the presiding officer of election and the person to act for him cannot attend to their duties, the chairman of the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly shall, from among the electoral administrative committeemen for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committeemen for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly or the clerks of the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly, appoint a person who shall provisionally take charge of the duties devolving upon the presiding officer of electoin.

Such documents as relate to the election meeting shall, during the term of office of the members of the House of Councillors, be preserved by the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative commitree for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly.　Article 20.

The electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly shall, in cases where it has determined the day for the election meeting in accordance with the provisions of Article 44 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors, forthwith notify the same to the presiding officer of election.　Article 21.

The provisions of the preceding three Articles shall apply with the necessary notifications to the branch election meetings or the election meeting for the election of the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country; provided, however, that "Article 44" mentioned in the last preceding Article shall read "Article 48," in respect to the branch election meeting, and "Article 53," in respect to the election meeting.　Article 22.

With respect to the election meeting and the branch election meeting, in addition to the provisions of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors, the the present Imperial Ordinance and the Order to be issued in pursuance of the said Law, such provisions as relate to the election meeting at the election of the members of the House of Representatives shall apply.　Chapter V Candidates for the Office of Member of the House of Councillors

A notice of candidacy for the office of members of the House of Councillors or a notice of recommendation of a candidate shall be filed in writing, shall contain the full name, the political party, the occupation, the address and the date of birth of a person who shall be a candidate for the office of member of the House of Councillors (in the case of a notice of recommendation of a candidate, together with the full name, the address and the date of birth of a person who files such notice of recommendation) and furthermore shall be accompanied by such document as testifies the fact that the deposit contemplated in Article 55, paragraph 1 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors has been lodged with the competent authorities.　A notice of withdrawing candidacy for the office of member of the House of Councillors shall be filed in writing, and, in case the candidacy is to be withdrawn ten days before the date of election owing to the loss of the right to be voted, the reason therefore shall be stated.

In a case where a notice of candidacy for the office of member of the House of Councillors or a notice of recommendation of a candidate has been filed, the presiding officer shall forthwith notify the full name, the political party, the occupation, the address, the date of birth and other necessary matters of the candidate for the office of member of the House of Councillors to the electoral administrative committee for the members of a city, town or village assembly (it shall be deemed herein to be the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly, in respect to the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country, and the mayor of a city, town or village in which such a candidate for the office of member of the House of Councillors has his address.　The electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly shall, in a case where the notice contemplated in the preceding paragraph has been received with respect to the member of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country, forthwith notify the same to the chief officer of a branch election meeting and the electoral administrative committee for the members of a city, town or village assembly.

In a case where a candidate for the office of member of the House of Councillors has withdrawn from candidacy on or before the eleventh day prior to the day of election, in a case where a candidate has died at or before the hour of the day of election at which time the polling stations shall be opened, or in a case where a candidate has withdrawn from candidacy by reason of his having ceased to be qualified for the office of member of the House of Councillors or in a case where the whole of an election has come to be void, a demand for the restitution of the deposit contemplated in Article 55, paragraph 1 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors may forthwith be made.　In a case where the number of the votes polled by a candidate for the office of member of the House of Councillors does not fall under the provisions of Article 55, paragraph 2 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors or in a case where a candidate for the office of member of the House of Councillors is a person who has been subjected to the application of the provisions of Article 58 of the same Law, a demand for the restitution of the deposit contemplated in Article 5, paragraph 1 of the same Law may, immediately after the validity of such an election as concerns such a candidate or of the election of such a person has become conclusive, be made.

Such matters prescribed in the provisions of Article 79 of the Law concerning the election of the members of the House of Councillors as concern such receipts in respect of election campaigns and such expenses of election campaigns as relate to such periods prior to the day of election as are specified in the following items shall be reported respectively within the period of time as specified under the respective item.　1.

Article 27.　With respect to such matters prescribed it the provisions of Article 50 of the aw concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors as concerns such receipts in respect of election campaigns and such expenses of election campaigns as relate to the periods prior to the day of election, the receipts and expenses prior to the day of a public notice or a notice of the day of election shall be reported within ten days from the day on which such public notice or such notice of the day of election has been given, and the receipts and expenses posterior to the day or a public notice or a notice of the day of election shall, at intervals of ten days after the day of such public notice or such notice of the day of election, be counted up for the preceding ten days and shall be reported within five days from the day on which such counting-up is made; provided, however, that with respect to a report in respect of such receipts and expenses as relate to the last period, a report contemplated in Article 29 may take its place.

Article 28.　Such matters prescribed in the provisions of Article 79 or 80 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors as concern such receipts in respect of election campaigns and such expenses of election campaigns as relate to the period after the day of election has passed shall be settled together with such receipts and expenses as relate to the periods posterior to the day of election and shall be reported within fifteen days from the day of election.

Article 29.　If, in a case where two or more elections are held at the same time or are held in succession, it is impossible to demarcate the receipts in respect of election campaigns and the expenses of election campaigns as to which elections such receipts and expenses concern, a report prescribed in the provisions of Article 80 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors shall, in respect to such receipts and such expenses as are put together, be made in conformity to the provisions of the preceding two Articles, provided, however, that the period from the day on which a public notice or a notice of the day of election has been given for the first time to the day of the last election shall, with respect to such report, be treated as one whole period of an election.

Article 30.　An official announcement prescribed in the provisions of Article 81 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors shall be given within three days from the day on which reports prescribed in the preceding four Articles have been accepted, in the Official Gazette in the case of the Home Minister and the Electoral Administrative Committee for the Members of the House of Councillors, and according to the prescribed mode of announcement in the case of the Electoral Administrative Committee for the Members of the Metropolitan Assembly or the Electoral Administrative Committee for the Members of a District or Urban or Rural Prefectural Assembly.

Article 31.　The reports prescribed in the provisions of Articles 26 to 29 inclusive shall be in conformity to such form as shall be prescribed by the Minister for Home Affairs.

Article 32.　Such necessary matters as relate to a demand for inspection prescribed in the provisions of Article 82, paragraph 2 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors and the manner thereof shall be prescribed by the Minister for Home Affairs, the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country, and shall be given notice of, together with a notice prescribed in the provisions of Article 31, paragraph 3.

Article 33.　With respect to the receipts in respect of election campaigns, a person responsible for the payment shall keep ledgers and shall enter therein the amount of each receipt (in respect to such benefits as concern a property, the amount of money which shall be obtained by estimating such benefits at the current price), the classification of each receipt, the full name or title and address of each contributor and any other matter necessary for the filing of the notice concerned.

Article 34.　Superintendents of the poll, superintendents for the counting of votes, chief officers of Branch election meetings, and presiding officers of election, as well as polling witnesses, counting witnesses, and election witnesses shall be granted such expenses as are necessary for the performance of their duties.

Article 35.　With respect to the expenses necessary for the public management of the facilities necessary for holding public meetings by using the equipments of schools or other establishments under the provisions of Article 39 (hereinafter referred to as "schools, etc."), the expenses of such public management for one time and only for one time for one candidate for the office of members of the house Councillors shall, for each equipment of a school, etc. which such candidate has used, be charged on the National Treasury.

Article 36.　The expenses necessary for the public management of the facilities necessary for holding public meetings by using the equipments of schools, etc. shall, except in a case where the same shall be charged on the National Treasury in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, be charged on the applicant for such public management, and the amount paid by such applicant to the administrator of the equipment of a school, etc. shall come to be revenue of the public body concerned or the owner of the school concerned.

Article 37.　The expenses necessary for the public management of the facilities necessary for holding public meetings by using the equipments of schools, etc. shall be administered with the finances of the public body concerned or the owner of the school concerned.

Article 38.　The expenses enumerated below shall be borne by the National Treasury:

Article 39.　With respect to the use of the equipments of schools and other establishments and the public management of the facilities necessary for the purpose of holding the public meetings by the use thereof as prescribed in the provisions of Article 90, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors, in addition to the provisions of the present Imperial Ordinance, such provisions as relate to the use of the equipments of public schools, etc. and the public management of the facilities necessary for the purpose of holding the public meetings by the use thereof at the election of the members of the House of Representatives shall apply.

Article 40.　A document prescribed in the provisions of Article 90, paragraph 3 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors (it shall be referred to as "a public bulletin of careers") shall, once in each case where an election (except an election which shall further be held in cases where a part of an election has become void) is held, be published.

Article 41.　A public bulletin of careers shall, for each electoral division (with respect to the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country, throughout the whole areas of all the metropolis, districts and urban and rural prefectures), be published.

Article 42.　In cases where he intends to have his full name, career, etc. published in a public bulletin of careers, a candidate, for the office of member of the House of Councillors shall, on or before the twentieth day prior to the day of election, file with the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly (with respect to the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country, the electoral administrative committee for the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country) an application in writing accompanied by the text which he intends to be published.

Article 43.　In cases where an application contemplated in paragraph 1 of the preceding Article has been filed with respect to a member of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country, the electoral administrative committee for the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country shall, on or before the tenth day prior to the day of election, send forward two copies of such text to be published (in cases where the number of the words contained in such text to be published exceeds the limit contemplated in paragraph 2 of the same Article, such text as shall be within such limit) to the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly of the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly.

Article 44.　In cases where an application contemplated in Article 42, paragraph 1 has been filed or a copy of the text contemplated in the preceding Article has been received, the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly shall publish in a public bulletin of careers the text to be published or a copy of the text as it stands.

Article 45.　A public bulletin of careers in respect of the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the local division of the country and a public bulletin of careers in respect of the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country shall be published by means of separate sheets of paper.

Article 46.　Public bulletins of careers shall, in conformity to the designation of the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly, be distributed among the households to which the persons entered in the register of electors of the metropolis, district or urban or rural prefecture belong.

Article 47.　If, in accordance with the provisions of Article 58, paragraph 1 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors and of Article 69 of the same Law in which the application with the necessary modifications of the abovementioned Article 58, paragraph 1 is prescribed, it has come to be unnecessary to take the poll, the proceeding of the publication of a public bulletin of careers shall be suspended.

Article 48.　In cases where, on account of an act of God or any other unavoidable accident, the sending-forward of a copy of the text to be published has not been effected until after the fixed time prescribed in Article 43, paragraph 1 or in case where there exists any other special circumstance, the publication of such public bulletin of careers in the whole area or a part of the area of the metropolis, district or urban or rural prefecture concerned as relate to such events mentioned above shall be suspended.

Article 49.　In addition to the provisions of the present Chapter, any matter necessary in connection with the proceeding for the publication of a public bulletin of careers shall be provided by the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly (with respect to the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country, the electoral administrative committee for the members of the House of Councillors to be elected from the whole area of the country).

Article 50.　The posting of the full names, etc. of candidates for the office of member of the House of Councillors prescribed in Article 90, paragraph 4 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors (it shall hereinafter referred as "the posting") shall, upon choosing the entrance of polling station or any other place easy for the public to see, be effected at one or more places for each polling division.

Article 51.　The matters to be entered on the posting shall be restricted to the full names and the political parties of candidates for the office of member of the House of Councillors.

Article 52.　The posting shall be effected from the tenth day prior to the day of election to the day on which an election is held.

Article 53.　If it has, after it has effected the posting, received a notice prescribed in the provisions of Article 24, paragraph 4, the electoral administrative committee for the members of a city, town or village assembly shall strike out such parts in the posting as relate to such candidate for the office of member of the House of Councillors as concerns that notice.

Article 54.　In addition to the provisions of the present Chapter, any matter necessary for the posting shall be provided by the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of a district or urban or rural prefectural assembly.

Article 55.　In the case of an election contemplated in Article 62 or Article 68 or Article 71 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors which shall be held in a city, town or village the boundary of which has been altered with the result of affecting the boundaries of metropolis, districts or urban or rural prefectures, the area of a polling division or a division for the counting of the votes contemplated in Article 2 of the same Law shall be the same as the area of the polling division or the division for the counting of the votes upon which the latest ordinary election has acted, and if there exist two or more electoral administrative committees for the members of city, town or village assemblies concerned, the electoral administrative committee for the members of a city, town or village assembly which shall administer the affairs of the election shall be the one which has been designated from among those committees by the electoral administrative committee for the members of the metropolitan assembly or the electoral administrative committee for the members of an urban or rural prefectural assembly.

Article 56.　In a case where an election contemplated in the last preceding Article shall be held, such electoral administrative committees for the members of city, town or village assemblies as have been subjected to such alteration shall, before such election, send forward to the superintendents of the poll such portions of the registers of electors as relate to the areas which have been subjected to alteration on account of the alteration of the boundary of the city, town or village.

Article 57.　Such matters relating to the expenses in respect of an election contemplated in Article 55 as are difficult to act upon the provisions of Articles 35 to 37 inclusive shall be provided by the Minister for Home Affairs.

Article 58.　In cases where the alteration of the boundary of a city, town or village has, in any of the following events, been effected with the result of affecting the boundaries of the areas in which an election or a poll shall be held, the provisions of the preceding three Articles shall apply with the necessary modifications to such election or such poll.

Article 59.　The provisions of Article 91 of the Law concerning the Election of the Members of the House of Councillors shall, in so far as the application of the present Imperial Ordinance is concerned, apply with the necessary modifications.