I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments to be made to the Regulations governing the Organization of the Telecommunication Committee and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This seventh day of the third month of the twenty-second year of Showa (March 7, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Communications HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi
Imperial Ordinance No. 71
The Regulations governing the Organization of the Telecommunication Committee shall be partly amended as follows:
Article 1. The Telecommunication Committee shall be subject to the superintendence of the Prime Minister, and in compliance with the inquiries of the Minister of Communications and the President of the Board of Economic Stabilization, shall investigate and consider the matters pertaining to the operation of various telecommunication services, and coordination as well as execution of plans of construction and maintenance of telecommunication facilities, and basic planning and drafting of production and delivery of telecommunication equipments.
The said committee may, besides matters prescribed in the preceding paragraph, make suggestion as to matters important to telecommunication to Ministers concerned and the President of the Board of Economic Stabilization.
In paragraph 1 of Article 2, ", two vice-chairmen" shall be added after "one chairman."
In Article 3, "the Minister of Communications" shall read "the Prime Minister," and the following paragraph shall be added after paragraph 1:
The Minister of Communications and the Director-General of the Board of Economic Stabilization shall be the vice-chairmen.
Paragraph 2 of Article 4 shall be amended as follows:
The vice-chairmen shall assist the chairman, and in case any obstacles should happen to the chairman, a vice-chairman designated by the Prime Minister shall perform the function of the chairman.
In paragraph 2 of Article 5, "the Minister of Communications" shall read "the Prime Minister."
In paragraph 2 of Article 6, "by the Minister of Communications" shall read "by the Cabinet."
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.