I hereby give My sanction with the advice of the Privy councillors to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments to be made to the Enforcement Ordinance for the Members of the House of Councillors Election Law, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twentieth day of the third month of the twenty-second year of Showa (March 20, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister for Home Affairs UEHARA Etsujiro
Imperial Ordinance No. 90
The Enforcement Ordinance for the Members of the House of Councillors Election Law shall be amended partly as follows:
In Art. 14, Par. 2, "Town and Village" shall read "City, Town and Village", and "Electoral Administration Committee for the election of the Members of Town and Village Assembly" shall read "Electoral Administration Committee for the election of the Members of City, Town and Village".
In Art. 23, Par. 1, "(in a case of the notification recommending him as a candidate the written approval drawn up by him, at the same time)" shall be added after "the document".
In Art. 26, "Art. 79" shall read "Art. 80, Par. 1"; in Item 1 of the same Article, "(within five days as for the Members from the national constituency)" shall be added to "within three days"; in Item 2 of the same Article, "(within five days as for the Members from the national constituency)" shall be added to "within three days"; and "(as for the Members from national constituency candidate who filed candidacy during the period from the tenth day to the fifth day preceding the date for election shall do so within four days after he filed candidacy" shall be added to "within two days".
In Art. 27, "Art. 80" shall read "Art. 80, Par. 2 or Par. 3".
In Art. 28, "Art 79 or" shall be deleted.
In Art. 29, "Art. 80" shall read "Art. 80, Par. 2 or Par. 3".
In Art. 38, Item 7 "Par. 4" shall read "Par. 5".
In Art. 39, "Par. 1 and Par. 2" shall read "Par. 2 and Par. 3" and "Public school" shall read "school".
In Art. 40, "Par. 3" shall read "Par. 4".
In Art. 50, "Par. 4" shall read "Par. 5".
In Art. 2, Par. 2 of Supplementary Provisions "The President of the House of Representatives" shall read "The President of the House of Peers", and "Members of the House of Representatives" shall read "Members of the House of Peers".
The following Article shall be added to the Supplementary Provisions:
Art. 6. In the ordinary election to be held for the first time in accordance with the Election Law for the Members of the House of Councillors, career bulletins, notwithstanding the provisions of Art: 46, shall, at every polling district, be notified at more than three places to be easily seen by the public.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.